TEARFUL Maria leaves hospital racked with grief – after losing her baby in a harrowing new Coronation Street storyline.
The plot is one of the most heartbreaking in the soap’s history, and insiders say the scenes will leave viewers devastated.
Young hairdresser Maria rushes to get help when she senses something is wrong as her baby son – fathered by new hubby Liam – stops kicking.
Pal Marcus, a sonographer, tells her to go for a hospital scan which reveals the baby has died, and our exclusive snap shows her face etched with torment after she is forced to give birth to the lifeless child.

Ordeal

A Street source said: “The scripts are absolute tearjerkers. Because the pregnancy is so advanced, the midwives at the hospital advise her that it may be best to have her labour induced straight away.

“So she has to go through the terrible ordeal of giving birth to her lifeless baby.

“Samia Smith, who plays Maria, is a terrific actress but she couldn’t help being affected by these harrowing scenes.”