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Four-armed, four-legged baby born in Indonesia: doctor
A young Indonesian mother gave birth to a baby girl with four arms and four legs but the child died within hours, a hospital director said Monday.
"She was to be a twin, but because of an intrauterine problem, the separation process did not proceed well," Wijayanti Utoyo, the director of the general hospital in Garut, West Java, told AFP.
The baby girl, born after a normal nine-month pregnancy, had one head and one torso, but an extra pair of arms and legs, she said.
"She was already in a critical condition when she was born Friday evening and died less than six hours after," Utoyo said.
The 24-year-old mother, who already had one child, suffered from malnutrition during her pregnancy, Utoyo said.
© 2008 AFP
The baby girl, born after a normal nine-month pregnancy, had one head and one torso, but an extra pair of arms and legs, she said.
"She was already in a critical condition when she was born Friday evening and died less than six hours after," Utoyo said.
The 24-year-old mother, who already had one child, suffered from malnutrition during her pregnancy, Utoyo said.
© 2008 AFP
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