MULTAN, Oct 23: Scores of people thronged a private clinic here to see a newly-born skull-less baby, who is still alive.

"Zarina Bibi has delivered a skull-less girl weighing 3kg who has eyes, nose, cheeks, healthy heart, kidneys, liver, lungs but she has no forehead and skull," Dr Khalid Mehmood told newsmen.

He said that her brain was in a cover of tissues separate from the body, which came out after the delivery. It might be an outcome of a cousin marriage, he said and added the baby could be saved through head surgery and keeping her brain in it.

Dr Mehmood said that labourer Abdul Ghaffar of Chak 237/9-R (Fort Abbas) came to his clinic along with his wife Zarina Bibi (35) for she was feeling abnormal movement of baby.

During ultrasound, it came to his knowledge that the baby was upside down, therefore, he advised her for immediate operation. On Thursday night, he operated her and a baby girl was delivered without her skull. However, her brain was found separately in tissue sheet.

Talking to newsmen, Abdul Ghaffar said that he did not agree with the doctor that it was a consequence of cousin marriage as his four children were normal.-PPI