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31st May 2016
08:31am BST

After being admitted into the Baling District Hospital, he was eventually referred to a specialist at the Sultan Abdul Hamid Hospital in Sungai Petani, who diagnosed his problem.
The boy's mother said that funeral rites had been performed on the foetus and it was buried. Reports state that the foetus had legs, hands and genitals. There is no known cause but 'vanishing' or 'parasitic' twins occur when one foetus wraps around the other. The twin that is enveloped then doesn't form fully, relying on the host twin for survival. One case involved a man from India who was 36 before his parasitic twin was discovered. It often happens in more isolated areas where access to medical facilities are highly limited.Explore more on these topics: