Bangladeshi twins born joined at skull to undergo surgery

Rafiqul Islam plays with his conjoined twin baby girls Rabia and Rukia in hospital in Dhaka. - AFP/file

Dhaka (AFP) - Bangladeshi twins born conjoined at the skull will undergo a difficult and potentially dangerous operation to separate them, surgeons said Wednesday as they appealed for help from global medical experts.

Doctors are trying to establish whether the one-year-old girls, born otherwise healthy in northwest Bangladesh, share the same brain, something that would vastly complicate the surgery.