AINI SUNPURA, India
- A baby with two faces was born in a northern Indian village, where she is
doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, her
father said Tuesday.

The baby, Lali, apparently has an
extremely rare condition known as craniofacial duplication, where a single head
has two faces. Except for her ears, all of Lali's facial features are
duplicated — she has two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes.

Lali has caused a sensation in the dusty village
of Saini Sunpura, 25 miles east of New
Delhi. When she left the hospital, eight hours after a
normal delivery on March 11, she was swarmed by villagers, said Sabir Ali, the
director of Saifi Hospital.

"She drinks milk from her
two mouths and opens and shuts all the four eyes at one time," Ali said.

Rural India
is deeply superstitious and the little girl is being hailed as a return of the
Hindu goddess of valor, Durga, a fiery deity traditionally depicted with three
eyes and many arms.