Baby with two heads bleeds to death after operation

AN infant girl born with a second head bled to death on Saturday following complex surgery in which doctors removed the partly formed twin that had threatened her brain, her parents and doctors said.

A medical team completed the operation, but said eight-week-old Rebeca Martinez died seven hours after the surgery, which doctors believed to be the first of its kind.

“We knew this was a very risky surgery, and now we accept what God has decided,” said the father, 29-year-old Franklin Martinez, who stood next to his wife at a hospital news conference, visibly exhausted and eyes swollen. “Rebeca is no longer with us physically, but no-one will forget her.”