Malaysian Teen Undergoes Surgery To Remove Unborn Twin Brother From Stomach After 15 Years

Discovering you have an unborn twin living inside of you sounds like the stuff of horror movies and nightmares. In fact, having a “parasitic twin” is the plot of Stephen King’s novel "The Dark Half" and an episode of "The X-Files." But for one teenage boy in Malaysia, this isn’t a part of a fictional plot, this his reality.

Mohd Zul Shahril Saidin, 15, was hospitalized for the last four months after he complained of stomach pain. It turned out the teen had been carrying his unborn twin inside him for 15 years, and he recently underwent surgery to remove the mass in what may be the first case of its kind in Malaysia, Fox News reported.

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