Doctors miraculously have managed to save the life of an unborn baby boy after his mother was shot dead with a crossbow in London.
35-yr-old Devi Unmathallegedoo tragically lost her life at her home in Applegarth Drive, Ilford, east London on Monday, but medics managed to deliver her son in hospital some time later.
Devi’s husband Imtiaz Muhammad, told the Evening Standard newspaper that his wife was shot dead in front of her five other kids after the inturder was found like a coward hiding in the family home’s garden shed.
Imtiaz told the newspaper:
“I went to put a cardboard box in the shed.
“He was there with the crossbow loaded.
“He stared at me, he was going to shoot so I ran into the house.
“My wife was doing the washing up, I was shouting ‘run’ ‘run’ ‘run’.
“He shot her. I can’t help thinking she took my arrow.
“Maybe it should have hit me. The kids were all there, it was horrific.”
A Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed that the baby had been delivered in hospital, where he remains.
Neighbour Nisa Khan, 40, who lives across the road from where the victim died, said: “It’s just terrible, it’s horrible, it’s not been a good time for us since yesterday morning.
“She was more like a sister than a friend. I knew her for a good seven years, ever since they moved there we’ve known them.
“She was just a lovely lady, lovely mother, lovely wife. I never saw her being upset, she always had a smile on her face even in the hard times.
“It’s just horrible, everyone goes from this world, we all go, but the way she’s gone it just hurts.
“Her memories will always stay with us, she’ll never be forgotten.”
Another neighbour said he had heard a man screaming for help at the house yesterday morning.
“I can hear the man screaming a lot, saying ‘help, help’,” he said. “He’s knocking the doors, on the neighbours as well, he’s asking for help, screaming for help.”