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Twin baby girls born with an extraordinarily rare condition have died three short weeks after their birth in the northern Indian city of Sonipat, outside New Delhi. The conjoined twins managed to survive for 20 days despite their two heads sharing just one body and one set of internal organs.
Unable to afford an ultrasound, Subash Sharma and his expectant wife Urmila were unaware of the children's condition until well into the pregnancy.
Born with two necks and two distinct spines as can be clearly seen in this x-ray taken just after birth the girls each had their own their own trachea, but each had just one lung to breath with, making it extremely difficult to separate them.
Due to the high risk of labor complication posed to both the twins and their mother, the children were born by Caesarean section on March 13.
After two days the children were transferred to a neonatal intensive care unit at a research hospital in Delhi.
But a heartbroken Urmila decided she could not bear to meet her children in person and so refused to see them, keeping only a photograph.
In the ICU they held on until April 2 when the babies' heart finally gave out.
As the paediatric surgeon in charge of the girls, Dr Muni Bajpai, explained: "In the end the babies' heart was too weak."
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