US Doctors separate conjoined 10-months old Twins in highly complex operation
Pakistan Times Wire Service

CALIFORNIA: Surgeons in California have separated conjoined twin girls, in a highly complex operation, which lasted more than 12 hours.

The 10-month-old girls, Regina and Renata Salinas Fierros, were joined from the lower chest to the pelvis.

A medical team of 80 began operating on the pair at 0600 (1300 GMT) at a hospital in Los Angeles, and cut the last pelvic bone joining them at 1820.

Born of Mexican parents, the twins shared a number of organs.

Their liver, intestines and pelvis were among those which needed dividing.

Regina is the weaker of the pair, with only one kidney.●