(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 18 - The State attorney's office in Pavia
has opened an investigation into the death in the night between
Monday and Tuesday of a pregnant woman and her unborn baby at
the local San Matteo Polyclinic medical centre, judicial sources
said Wednesday.
Andreea Mihaela Antochi, 30, and the baby she was carrying,
Sasha Andrei Lovin, died during delivery.
According to preliminary reports, the woman died from
respiratory failure.
Doctors were unable to save her infant with an emergency
C-section.
An autopsy will be carried out as part of the probe to determine
the cause of death. (ANSA).