LOHRASB (Iran): Iranian twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani were buried side by side, but in different graves yesterday as thousands mourned the conjoined sisters whose determination to lead separate lives touched people around the world.
Mourners lined the hillsides and beat their chests as a Muslim cleric read verses from the Quran and the bodies were carried aloft to the graveyard close to their parents' mud-brick home in a remote valley in southern Iran.
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