PRAYAGRAJ, Oct. 29 -- A pregnant woman and her unborn child died after allegedly remaining trapped in a massive traffic jam while her family was rushing her to a hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj district on Tuesday morning.

According to her family members, they remained stuck in the traffic on the Shastri Bridge for around one-and-a-half hours and the woman and her unborn child died around 11 am. Residents of Bani village under Hanumanganj police station jurisdiction, Suryakant Gautam, a mason, and his 32-year-old wife Seema were trying to reach the hospital when Seema went into labour.

Initially taken to the community health centre (CHC), Bani, doctors there referred her to a larger facility in the city, located around 15 km away,...