Strangers and railway staff help Chinese couple bring quintuplets home by train

When a couple from Xinjiang took their quintuplets home on a 36-hour train journey, the babies became favourites of both the train crew and fellow passengers, who took turns caring for them. The five babies were born on February 26 at a major hospital in Wuhan, in central China’s Hubei province. Their father, known as Abu, and their mother, Dili, are both from Hotan in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region. The 24-year-old mother conceived naturally despite having previously been diagnosed with...