A child with the so-called mermaid syndrome - sirenomelia was born in the Indian district of Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh. He had accreted legs, and doctors could not even understand what he was like, The Times of India reported.

According to the source, the child lived less than an hour and died.

On July 27, a 22-year-old pregnant woman named Tabassum was taken to a local hospital. According to the doctors, Tabassum gave birth to the child through a normal delivery, but when the child was born, everyone was shocked: the baby was born with knitted legs and was very weak. Obstetricians Anandita Kumari and Afsaar Farukh admitted that they had never seen anything like this before.

Professionals could not even establish the sex of the child.

Since there was little to do for the child at the local hospital, the doctors suggested transporting him to the county hospital in the county capital Lakhimpur, where they could provide him with the necessary medical care. However, they did not have time to do this - the child died before his parents had time to make a decision.