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more-inA two-day-old born without organ development in the lower part of its body, died on Monday after doctors attempted a life-saving procedure at Niloufer Hospital. An autopsy and pathological examination has been scheduled to understand the rare condition that is said to occur one-in-a-lakh births. The baby was born to a 26-year-old woman at Government Maternity Hospital in Petlaburj on Saturday. Babies with Sirenomelia are colloquially referred to by doctors as ‘Mermaid Babies’. The surgeons found female reproductive organs in the baby, whose gender was unclear at birth..