Surgery begins on girl born with eight limbs

DOCTORS began operating on Tuesday on a two-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs in an extensive surgery they hope will leave the girl with a normal body, a hospital official said.

The 40-hour procedure was expected to continue into this morning.

The girl, named Lakshmi, was joined to a “parasitic twin” that stopped developing in the mother’s womb. The surviving foetus absorbed the limbs, kidneys and other body parts of the undeveloped foetus.