Australian doctors operate into the night on conjoined twins

MELBOURNE: A team of Australian surgeons worked all day yesterday on a delicate and complicated surgery to separate twin sisters who are joined at the top of the head.

The 2-year-old Bangladeshi orphans, Trishna and Krishna, share parts of their skull, brain tissue and blood flow.

Doctors expected the operation, which began in the morning, to take at least 16 hours, with a team of 16 surgeons and nurses.