KABUL - Hours after gunmen on Tuesday stormed a maternity clinic in Kabul and killed two dozen people, including women and babies, Feroza Omar rushed to another hospital where about 20 babies who survived the attack had been transferred.
When she arrived at Ataturk Hospital, the 27-year-old did something many deemed heroic. In a span of three hours, Feroza breastfed four of the orphaned newborns.
"I thought to myself that these babies need their mothers, but they were killed in the attack, so I will play the role of a mother, hug them and feed them," she told Al Jazeera.
Feroza was breastfeeding her four-month-old boy at home when she heard about the attack on the maternity section of the Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Afghanistan's capital. She said she felt the urge to do something for those babies "to comfort them".
"When I hugged them, I didn't feel like they were someone else's babies. I felt I am feeding my own child. The terrorists have not even spared babies of this country who just opened their eyes onto this world," she said.(FA)