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A man hit a pregnant woman with a car in the district of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia. She succumbed to her serious injuries in a hospital, the police said. Her unborn child has also died.

According to the information, the accident occurred on Sunday evening at the level of a gas station, when the pregnant woman was using the pedestrian crossing. How the accident happened is the subject of the investigation, it said

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