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© Daily NewsMin Lin, 36, was pregnant when she was fatally hit by a snow plow operator in Brooklyn. Her baby boy was delivered by caesarean section.
A heartbreaking photo reveals the life-and-death struggle of a newborn, who was delivered after his mother was fatally struck by a snowplow.

The picture shows the bandaged baby, who was delivered by Caesarean section on Thursday, with a breathing tube in his nose. He had a heart monitor attached to his chest and other tubes hooked up to his tiny bandaged body at Maimonides Medical Center.

"He remains in critical condition," a hospital spokeswoman said Friday.

His mother, Min Lin, 36, was hit by a plow-equipped Bobcat during Thursday morning's snowstorm as she and her husband loaded groceries into the trunk of their car in the Fei Long Market parking lot on Eighth Ave. near 63rd St. in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn.

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© Mark Bonifacio/New York Daily NewsNYPD police at the scene inside the parking lot of Fei Long Market Inc., where the store's owner struck a pregnant woman with a plow-equipped Bobcat.
Lin, who lived in Sunset Park and had a 5-year-old son, was rushed to the hospital where she died less than an hour later. But doctors managed to save the boy.

The 6-pound, 6-ounce miracle baby, who was due next week, was without oxygen for 17 minutes and may have damage to his brain or other organs, a relative told news website DNAinfo.

In the weeks before her death, Lin called her family in China every day to update them on her pregnancy, her roommate Song Qing Huang, 37, said.

"She's a very good woman, a good mommy, a good wife," Huang said. "She was happy for the new baby."

Lin loved cooking for her family, Huang said.

"We cooked every day," her roommate tearfully recalled.