Ladan and Laleh Bijani

Ladan Bijani and Laleh Bijani (in Persian: لادن و لاله بیژنی‎) (January 17, 1974 – July 8, 2003) were Iranian law graduates. They were conjoined twin sisters, joined at the head, who died after their complicated surgical separation. They died at 29 years of age. They were born in Firuzabad, a city in southwest Iran, to Dadollah Bijani and Maryam Safari, members of a farming family from Lohrasb. The Bijani sisters were lost in a hospital in 1979 a... More

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