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She ran under a hail of bullets while in labour. On June 21st, Longdi ThankGod arrived at the hospital to give birth to her first child. Minutes later, terrorists stormed that same hospital. Inside the reception, they killed her husband, her in-laws, her doctor, and her taxi driver. Longdi escaped through an emergency exit while in active labour. Under gunfire, she ran 500 meters and delivered her baby alone in the bush. She named him Naankibanmun — "God helped us." He was orphaned on the day he was born, in the place he was supposed to meet his father. Three months later, Longdi is still living with the trauma. We cannot look away.