A FOURTH baby died yesterday and seven remained in critical condition following a fire at a Bucharest maternity hospital that the health minister called “one of the darkest tragedies” of Romania’s health system.

The 66-year-old mother, believed to be the oldest woman to give birth, dismissed concerns that she is too old to rear the child and said today that the baby was her mission in life.

A 66-YEAR-OLD Romanian woman yesterday became the world’s oldest recorded mother after giving birth to a baby girl.

A 67-year-old Romanian woman gave birth today to a baby girl, hospital officials said. The child’s twin sister was stillborn, they said.