KARACHI: A woman delivered quintuplets — four girls and one boy — on Wednesday at a private hospital in Karachi, DawnNews reported.

The couple had been childless for 16 years.

Tragically, one baby girl passed away whereas the four others have been kept in the hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU), along with the mother, hospital sources told Dawn.

Zahid Khan, father of the four babies, spoke to media representatives and expressed joy at the birth of the children, adding that he would like to see them in the medical profession in future.

He also revealed that he was a resident of Quetta who had come to the metropolitan city only two weeks ago.

— With additional reporting by Shafi Baloch

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