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Eleonora Laterza, 25, dies with unborn daughter in Padua

Eleonora Laterza, 25, dies with unborn daughter in Padua

Eleonora Laterza, 25, died at a hospital in Padua after being taken there with a severe haemorrhage.

She was from Ponte San Nicolò, near Padua, and was pregnant with a daughter named Maya.

Maya also died before birth, after doctors tried to save both mother and baby with blood transfusions.

The reports differ on how far along the pregnancy was, giving 24 or 25 weeks.

Laterza had undergone a liver transplant as a child and had experienced another haemorrhage some years earlier; one report says she had married shortly before her death.

Her funeral is set for Saturday, October 24, at 9:30 a.m.

at the parish church of San Pio X in Padua.

After the service, she is to be buried at the Rio-Roncaglia cemetery in Ponte San Nicolò.

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