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Afghan women breastfeed babies who lost their mothers in 'devastating' attack

Kaamila Sahar, a volunteer helping to nurse babies, holds a newborn at a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May, 13, 2020. [Thomson Reuters Foundation]

After militants stormed a hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul and killed young women and their babies, Kaamila Sahar felt compelled to help.

As a young mother herself, she decided to breastfeed the infants whose own mothers had been killed or injured.

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