, July 3 -- Four of the five babies born to a woman at Faridpur Medical College Hospital on Thursday died within 12 hours of birth due to complications from premature delivery and extremely low birth weight, doctors said.

The woman gave birth to quintuplets - three boys and two girls - through normal delivery at the hospital's labour ward between 5:20pm and 5:50pm on Thursday.

However, one of the boys survived and remains under treatment at the hospital, while four other newborns died.

The parents are Mahamudul Hasan and Chandni Begum of Bhabukdia village in Dangi union of Nagarkanda upazila.

Preetiraj Roy Chowdhury, an intern at the hospital's neonatal and paediatric ward, said all five babies were born alive but were extremely under...