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Twins separated

Los Angeles: Surgeons in Salt Lake City successfully separated conjoined twins on Tuesday morning in a 25-hour operation. Four-year-old Maliyah and Kendra Herrin had been joined at the abdomen, had one set of legs and shared a kidney. Within an hour the reconstructive surgery on her sister's abdominal wall was completed and they were both moved out of the operating theatre to sleep for the first time in separate beds. Surgeons planned to give each girl one leg and Kendra the kidney.

- Guardian Newspapers Limited 2006

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