Sunday, February 8, 2009

Baby with two heads dies in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Feb. 6 (Chinese media) -- A baby with two heads in

Indonesia died on Thursday night at a hospital in Medan, the second largest city

in the country, hospital official said on Friday.

The baby had been treated at the Adam Malik General

Hospital for 13 days, kompas website Friday quoted announcement issued by the

hospital as saying.

Hospital director Azwan Hakmi Lubis said the baby

died of heart failure, which eventually halted the baby's blood circulation and

troubled the breathing.

The baby, which was actually a twin, was accepted in

late January. The baby, who was later called Marwati 1 and Marwati 2, has two

lungs, two legs, one abdomen, one genital and anus, two hearts and two

backbones. The hearts and backbones, however, were linked together.

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