[Alouette]

How do they know the woman was pregnant? Did they perform an ultrasound at the checkpoint? How do we know she didn't strap a bowling ball or a watermelon under that burka?

[cake_crumb]

"How do they know the woman was pregnant?"

BEFORE she blew up? Maybe she was showing. AFTER she blew up, a blood sample from an intact body part would prove or disprove pregnancy beyond a shadow of a doubt.