MADRID (AP) -- Police in Spain say a gunman walked into a Catholic church, killed a pregnant woman and then committed suicide, but emergency crews performed a C-section on the woman and saved the baby.

The pregnant woman was just days away from giving birth. Her baby was delivered as she lay dying Thursday inside the church in Madrid.

The newspaper El Mundo said the gunman knelt before the altar of
the church before he shot himself in the head and that he used to be the woman's boyfriend. The paper gave no source, and it was not clear if the child was his. El Mundo said the baby delivered in the
emergency procedure was a boy.

It quoted witnesses as saying the shooting occurred as dozens of
people were getting ready for the evening Mass and the parish priest was getting his gown on to conduct the service.

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