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When a driver hit and killed two women pushing a baby boy in a stroller in Winnetka on Friday, Mudassir Rashid and other family members were left in shock. His wife, Sediqeh “Asra” Samadi, 37, of Kenilworth, a chemical engineer who worked at Abbott Labs, was one of the victims. The other was her mother, Saeideh Sigari, a 58-year-old teacher who was visiting from Iran and had been excited to meet her only grandson for the first time.
Samadi and Rashid’s 4-month-old son, Yusuf, who was in the stroller, has been hospitalized at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge in critical condition, said Rashid, an assistant professor and director of the pharmaceutical engineering program at Illinois Institute of Technology, also called Illinois Tech, in Chicago.
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