Woman gives birth to one-eyed baby in Yemen

YEMEN: A woman gave birth to a one-eyed baby in Yemen’s Al-Bayda province who died seven hours after its birth, the Gulf News reported.

According to the Yemeni journalist Karim Zarai — who posted the pictures of the newborn on social media — said the baby was born with a single eye and a single optical nerve.

The birth took place last Wednesday; however, the baby couldn’t survive. “This is a very rare case that was known in Greek Mythology,” the journalist was quoted as saying.

The doctors said the baby had a hole in place of the baby’s eye and had only one vein for vision. There were no comments made by the hospital authorities regarding the case.

The media reports said that the world saw only six cases like this in five centuries.