A baby girl with an extra head has undergone surgery to remove her second skull. Doctors in Afghanistan were stunned when Asree Gul was born with the deformity in July.
She has a healthy twin sister, but medics believe a third baby failed to develop properly in the womb, and fused with Asree's foetus.
Surgeons operated on her last week, painstakingly separating vital nerves and blood vessels that were connected to the extra skull.
She was discharged on Wednesday [Sept. 25] after docs hailed the operation a success.
Asree Gul (left) is one of twins and her sister was born healthy. It is thought that her extra head was the result of a third baby who did not develop properly in the womb
Tiny Asree was photographed with a bandaged-up head, cuddling up to her sister before she left hospital in Nangarhar.
Asree's parents approached the hospital because the deformity was making it difficult for her to sleep and had led the family to be ostracised by their farming community.
They couldn't afford the £2,500-£3,700 cost of treatment - so surgeon Ahmad Obaid Mojadid agreed to treat her for free.
Mojadid described the surgery as "the first of its kind in Afghanistan's east". He added: "We don't have very developed equipment, but we are very happy to have conducted the operation successfully".
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