Conjoined twins die in Yemen

CONJOINED twin boys born in Yemen who were in urgent need of treatment abroad died on Saturday, the health ministry in Houthi-controlled Yemen said.

Doctors treating 2-week-old Abd al-Khaleq and Abd al-Rahim in the capital Sana’a had said the boys could not survive within Yemen’s war-ravaged health system.

They needed to be taken abroad for the appropriate treatment.

But the airport in Houthi-controlled Sana’a has been closed to civilian flights since 2015 because the Saudi-led coalition has control over Yemeni airspace.

The tiny boys had heads but a shared torso.

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