JAMMU: A 32-year-old woman in Jammu’s Channi Himmat area gave birth in a police van on Sunday while being taken to the hospital amid the nationwide lockdown in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.“Early on Sunday, a distress call came in from the Jammu police control room informing that a woman living in Sector-3 of Channi Himmat area had gone into labour but couldn’t reach the hospital sans any mean of transport because of the lockdown,” said a police spokesperson, adding that the woman, Sonia Devi , and her husband Raj Kumar are originally from Uttar Pradesh ’s Bahraich district and work as daily wage labourers in Jammu.“Acting swiftly, a team of cops from Channi Himmat police station rushed to ferry the woman to the hospital in a police van. The couple was accompanied by a midwife whom they had called for assistance. On the way to the facility, however, Sonia delivered a baby girl in the van itself. The midwife carried out the procedure,” the spokesperson said.“After the birth of their daughter, the couple didn’t wish to visit the hospital anymore so the police team took them back home,” the spokesperson added.