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Yemeni separated conjoined twins return home from Jordan: UN agency

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Conjoined twin boys from war-torn Yemen who were successfully separated in surgery in Jordan returned to the capital Sanaa this month, the UN children’s agency said on Monday. Ahmed and Mohammed were born on December 16 last year, joined at the chest and abdomen, in Sanaa, the country’s rebel-held capital, UNICEF said. They were transported to Jordan after urgent calls for their medical evacuation and surgery. The twins were separated in July at Amman’s Speciality Hospital in a nearly eight-hour operation involving 25 surgeons and technical advisers. The twins were seven months old at the time…

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