Beirut, Oct 12: A Lebanese woman has given birth to sextuplets - four girls and two boys, hospital officials said. Doctors delivered the babies yesterday by caesarian section 30 weeks into Soumaya Ghosson's pregnancy, officials at the suburban Al-Hayat hospital said. The babies and mother are "doing fine," said one official on condition of anonymity. The babies weigh between 0.5 kilograms and 1.1 kilograms. The girls were named Batool, Mariyam, Aya and Hitaf, while the boys were called Ali and Abdelrahman, hospital officials said. The parents were not available for comment.
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