Tanzania, July 28 -- Arusha. Just six weeks after a Dar es Salaam family welcomed quintuplets in a rare birth that captured national attention, another Tanzanian couple has experienced a similar pregnancy, but with a heartbreaking outcome.

Unlike the Dar es Salaam family, whose five babies survived, Robert Frank and his wife, Careen Remi, 22, are mourning the loss of all their quintuplets, who died hours after being born prematurely at the Mount Meru Regional Referral Hospital.

The babies, two boys and three girls, were delivered in the early hours of July 26, 2026, at just 26 weeks' gestation.

Ms Remi said the pregnancy had been closely monitored after an ultrasound confirmed she was carrying quintuplets, a rare and high-risk conditio...