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Doctors in the U.K. have successfully separated a of Sudanese twins who were born with the of their heads joined together. The 11-month-old baby girls, Rital and Ritag Gaboura, had four operations over four months. They are now well in a London hospital and are expected to make a recovery. The rare condition that joined their heads happens in about 2.5 million births. Surgery to separate them be extremely dangerous as surgeons have to cut the brains and deal the major flow of blood between the two brains. Such operations leave significant neurological damage, although that does not appear to be the with Rital and Ritag.

The charity Facing the World, which disfigured children, helped the twins receive the operation they . The charity’s spokeswoman Sarah Driver-Jowitt described just successful the surgery was: “Within the twins were back on the general ward interacting and playing as ," she said. Lead surgeon Dr David Dunaway said: "Incidences of surviving twins with this are extremely rare. The task presented innumerable challenges and we were all very of our responsibility to the family and these two little girls." Another surgeon in this field, Dr James Goodrich, said: "So far the have been exceptional. I think both kids will do well."