‘We hid our little fighters to protect their dignity’

THE parents of former conjoined twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf have admitted they used to hide their sons under a blanket before they were successfully separated.

Angie and Azzedine Benhaffaf, from Cork, said they went underground for six weeks after their miracle sons were born in order to protect their dignity.

They said that in the weeks after the boys were born at Cork University Maternity Hospital, they would conceal the twins under a blanket when they wandered down the corridor so nobody would see them.