Saturday, April 25, 2015

INDIA: Weird baby born with 8 limbs, worshipped as a god (PHOTOS)

Thousand religious believers have come to see the newborn and worship him as a Hindu God. The baby boy with four arms and four legs is yet to be named. The child’s features is clearly a form of birth defect from undeveloped twins, probably a conjoined twins.

The child was born in Jharkhand, India, on April 18, 2015, his arrival turned the sleepy and quiet town of Dumri-Isri into a festive pilgrimage destination.

Sarita Devi, a nurse said, “We are taking great care of the baby.” But the condition of the mother, Ureda Khatun, is unknown.

Worshipers who swarm the little town Dumri-Isri rejoiced and believed that the child is an incarnation of Ganesha. The most iconic and widely-worshipped deities in the Hindu religion in which it embodies as an elephant with four arms.

Kuntalesh Pandey travelled 72 miles from Hazaribagh to get a glimpse of the boy. He said, “When a friend first sent me a picture I wrote it off as photoshopped but when he confirmed that it is real I came to see the baby straight away.”