London's Great Ormond Street Hospital has announced that one of the conjoined twins they separated has died.
18 year old Laura Williams from Shrewsbury, gave birth to the girls named Faith and Hope, on 26 November.
She had gone ahead with the pregnancy despite medical advice to consider termination of her Siamese Twins. The twins were joined at the chest and shared a liver but had separate hearts and it was thought that a separation would be successful.
A member of the surgical team which separated the twins has said that Faith is in a stable condition but confirmed that Hope had died.
Professor Agostino Pierro, head of the surgical team which operated on the girls, said Hope died in the presence of her parents - Laura Williams and her husband Aled, from Anglesey.
The professor explained that Hope died because her lungs had been unable to support her.
The hospital had originally wanted to wait until the twins were stronger before carrying out the operation, but it was brought forward after their health gave cause for concern.
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Conjoined Twin Faith Dies
