Surgeons try to separate joined sisters

SURGEONS in Salt Lake City, Utah, will try to separate two four-year-old sisters whose bodies are fused at the mid-section in an operation that could take 14 to 30 hours.

Kendra and Maliyah Herrin, who are practically face to face, share one pair of legs, a liver, one functioning kidney and part of the large intestine.

If all goes according to plan on Monday at Primary Children’s Medical Centre, each girl will get one leg and Kendra the kidney.