Girl Born With 8 Limbs!

Have you ever heard of a human with eight arms and legs? Well, in Banglore India, a young girl had four arms and legs surgically removed. She was born with four arms and four legs, but luckily, the surgeons were able to remove them successfully.


Lakshmi was born joined at the pelvis to a "parasitic twin" that stopped developing in her mother's womb. The surviving fetus absorbed the limbs, kidneys and other body parts of the undeveloped twin.

A team of more than 30 surgeons performed a 24-hour operation on Nov. 7 at the Sparsh hospital in Bangalore. They removed the extra limbs, transplanted a kidney from the twin and reconstructed Lakshmi's pelvic area.


The family is extremely thankful and glad that the operation was a success.
Right now, Lakshmi can walk and run with no help or problems at all.


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