Iranian twins critical after separation

Neurosurgeons finished separating two 29-year-old Iranian twins joined at the head today, but the women were left in a critical condition by the dangerous procedure, a hospital spokesman said.

“We should pray very hard for them,” Dr Prem Kumar said in Singapore.

The brains of Ladan and Laleh Bijani are separate but had unexpectedly begun to stick together after the decades in which the twins had lain alongside each other.