Mtoto avunja rekodi ya dunia, ana vidole 34

Mtoto wa kiume mwenye umri wa mwaka mmoja, Akshat Saxena, ana jumla ya vidole 34 vikiwemo 14 za mikononi,

Mtoto huyo wa kwanza kwa wazazi wake kutoka jimbo la Uttar Pradesh ana vidole 7 katika kila mkono, na vidole 10 katika kila mguu.

Akshat amevunja rekodi ya dunia ya watoto waliowahi kuzaliwa na vidole vingi zaidi hivyo ameingizwa katika kitabu cha kumbukumbu za dunia, Guinness World Records.

Mtoto aliyekuwa anaishikilia rekodi hiyo alizaliwa China akiwa na vidole 31 vikiwemo 15 vya mikononi , na kwa sasa ana umri wa miaka sita.

Alifanyiwa operesheni mwaka jana, hivi sasa ana vidole 10 miguuni na 10 mikononi.

A ONE-year-old boy in India has broken a world record after being born with 34 fingers and toes.

Akshat Saxena had seven fingers on each hand and ten toes on each foot, according to a spokesman for Guinness World Records.

The child, from Uttar Pradesh in northern India, has since had a series of surgeries to amputate the excess digits.

Akshat was born last year without thumbs so doctors are working to reconstruct these out of the fingers they have removed.

His mother Amrita Saxena said: "I was so happy to see my baby as it was our first child. "But later, when I saw his fingers, I was shocked and surprised."

The condition is known as polydactyly, a genetic disorder which can be inherited and gives rise to excess digits.

Most commonly, the extra digits appear on the little finger side of the hand.

Mrs Saxena said it was a family friend who convinced them Akshat was extremely special.

She said: "He read on the internet about the baby born in China with 31 fingers.

"Then he said that my boy has broken the record of having 34 fingers. At first, I was not convinced at all. It was hard to believe that my son has broken the record.

"But later, he along with my husband and my younger sister registered the data in the Internet."

The record was previously held by a six-year-old boy in China who had 15 fingers and 16 toes.

The child, who his family refused to name, also had surgery to remove his extra digits.

He now has ten fingers and ten toes following a six-and-a-half hour operation at a hospital in Shenyang, Liaoning last March.