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The sprawling Philippine capital is renowned for its daily tailbacks, but the ongoing Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit has taken the city's congestion to infuriating new heights.
Police have shut down key thoroughfares in the metropolis to ensure quick and safe travel for world leaders during the summit, causing gridlock and forcing many commuters to make long walks home.
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In one incident earlier this week a pregnant woman trapped in traffic went into labour and gave birth with the help of two police officers, Senior Superintendent Wilben Mayor, the national police spokesman said on Wednesday.
"It was a special situation but the important thing is the baby is alive and they (the officers) were able to perform their duties," he told a news conference.
Fellow commuter Angel Ramos-Canoy uploaded a picture and an account of the emergency delivery on her Facebook wall that quickly went viral.
It showed a policewoman and a second woman in civilian clothes holding a newborn partly wrapped in white cloth, an umbilical cord still attached.
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Mayor said he did not have details on when or where the incident took place.
Local media said the unidentified woman gave birth to a baby boy on Monday morning.
In her Facebook post, which can no longer be seen on her wall, Ramos-Canoy wrote how she and other stranded commuters used umbrellas to give the woman some privacy as she gave birth.
"All we can do is to give shade through our umbrellas," she wrote.
Mayor said the policewoman who helped deliver the baby was also a midwife, while the male officer was a trained nurse.
They summoned an ambulance to take the woman to hospital, but delivered the baby themselves because the emergency vehicle could not get through the traffic jam, he added.
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