Jakarta - Conjoined Indonesian twins, who were born with two heads but a single body, died of organ failure Tuesday morning, a state media report said. "The babies' death was caused by the failure of vital organs, like the hearts and the lungs," the state-run Antara news agency quoted Dr Tubagus Odhi as saying, adding that the twins died within minutes of each other.
The conjoined boys, the firstborn children of their parents, were delivered by Caesarean section Thursday at a local hospital in Indragiri Hilir district, in Riau province, East Sumatra.
They were in a critical condition and taken to another hospital in the provincial capital of Pekanbaru.
The 3.2-kilogram twins, who have not been named, had two heads, a pair of lungs, two arms, two legs and two hearts.
The twins' father Badrun, who like many Indonesians goes only by one name, told Antara news agency that the infants passed away early Tuesday.
"My babies are gone. My wife had never held the babies in her arms and now they are gone," said Badrun, 33, who had been waiting for nine years to have children.
He said the doctors explained that the twins had suffered from breathing difficulties. The hospital director said earlier that it would have been medically impossible to separate the twins.
