Less than a week after they were born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the conjoined twin girls have died. The head of the intensive care unit, Abid Hossian Molla said they died on Sunday after apparently suffering from heart failure. They were taken into intensive care at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh’s biggest public hospital, which set up a team of specialists to treat them.


“She was not in a stable condition since she was born. She died before we could intervene,” said Hossian Molla. “She was a rare conjoined twins with two heads. She had two hands and two legs like any normal baby, but inside she had two hearts, two sets of lungs and shared pelvic organs.” he added.

The birth of this type of conjoined twins – who develop after a fertilized egg cell fails to divide fully – is extremely rare, with most cases occurring in southwest Asia and Africa.

Last year, a baby with two heads was born to a mother in India, who was too poor to have an ultrasound during her pregnancy. However, the infants died after 20 days.

Another baby named Kiron was also born in Bangladesh with two heads in 2008, but later died.

There have been instances of dicephalic parapagus twins being born in the West.

In July 2009, Lisa Chamberlain, from Portsmouth, gave birth to twins Joshua and Jayden, who shared the same single body.

Lets pray for them please