Woman gives birth to a baby with 4 legs, 2 reproductive organs in Katsina

The child has both sexes and four legs, the two abnormal legs and a penis are on the left side of the ribs.

A woman identified as Zainab has been delivered of a baby with 4 legs and 2 reproductive organs at Sabon Garin Makiyawa in Magama Jibia, Katsina State.

Daily trust reports that She gave birth to the baby on March 9, 2018. The mother, Zainab is married to one Hassan and they already have a three year old male child.



When asked, Hassan said that the wife attended ante-natal. Below is how he described the baby:

“The child has both sexes and four legs, the two abnormal legs and a penis are on the left side of the ribs, only one of the two additional legs is moving, the second doesn’t. I can say it’s a girl because the longer and normal legs have a female genital at their proper place.”

“For now, I’m made to understand from some health officials that she may need surgery to correct the defects and was given a referral later to the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital to meet a consultant paediatric surgeon,”

he said.

Doctors’ findings and examination at the Turai Yaradu Clinic stated that “the second twin was attached to the first at the sacral region to the left, swelling at the lumbo sacral region of both twins, polydactyl of the fingers. The provisional diagnosis was said to be sarcophagus con joined twins.”