Miracle mum of quads dies after 24-day battle for life on ventilator

TRIBUTES were paid yesterday to a “miracle” British woman whose death robbed her 13-year-old quads of a mum.

- Paul Jeeves

Shabnum Sadiq, 39, who served as a councillor for Slough Borough Council in Berkshire, died on Monday after spending 24 days fighting for her life on a ventilator.

In 2006 she gave birth to four babies by planned Caesarean section, beating 729,000-to-one odds to produce naturally conceived quads.

She fell ill while attending a wedding in Pakistan in March.

Friend and fellow Labour representative Cllr Haqeeq Dar said: “She was a fighter and I just can’t believe that she’s gone. It’s a tragedy.”