Baby born with 4 feet and 4 hands

A newborn baby with four arms and four legs has surgery to remove the extra limbs last Friday. [photo / Yangcheng Evening News]

A newborn baby with four arms and four legs had surgery to remove the extra limbs last Friday.

The boy, born on April 2 in Huizhou, South China's Guangdong Province, had a birth weight of just 3.05Kg, according to Yangcheng Evening News.

"The boy was born joined at the torso to a headless parasitic twin. They were supposed to be twins, but one had underdeveloped and became deformed" Yu Jiakang, chief surgeon at Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, told the Yangcheng Evening.

The baby's father said his wife had undergone five examinations prior to the birth but doctors found no abnormalities.

The surgery was successful and cost about 80,000 yuan (about US $12,860). The baby is now in stable condition.