Mother dumps conjoined twins in Porgera

Police in Porgera, Enga Province are looking for an unidentified woman  who dumped  her  conjoined twins and fled.  The woman after giving birth to the child  realized that her baby had two heads which  scare her and dumped the baby in the nearby bushes and fled. 

Jason Romba a local from the nearby Wagima village discovered the body of the baby.  He found the body of the newborn, wrapped in a red shirt, dumped at the roadside as he was on his way to the village’s main market.

Mr Romba said that at first he thought the odd-looking package in the bush was rubbish but on closer inspection he noticed the head of a boy.

He was immediately swarmed by villagers who were curious about the discovery. The villagers were certain that the baby  was successfully  delivered  alive because the umbilical cord  was cut off perfectly. 

According to experts, births of conjoined twins, whose skin and internal organs are fused together, are rare. Conjoined twins occur once every 200,000 live births, and overall survival rate is somewhere between 5 per cent and 25 per cent. Conjoined twins are genetically identical, and are, therefore, always the same sex. They develop from the same fertilised egg.