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Child bride dies giving birth in Yemen

Posted Sep 12, 2009 by KJ Mullins

A child bride in Yemen has died after being in labor for three days. The 12-year-old suffered from severe bleeding after delivering a stillborn infant on Friday.

Fawziya Abdullah Youssef was just 11 when her father married her off to a 24-year-old farmer in Saudi Arabia.

Yemen has been in the news for child brides in recent years. More than a quarter of the nation's girls marry before their fifteenth birthday.

Fawziya's death was reported by the Associated Press after a local human rights group reported on it on Saturday.