Warning: This article includes content some readers may find disturbing A set of conjoined twin girls have been separated at a teaching hospital in Nigeria, making it the first successful operation of its kind in the hospital’s recorded history. “We felt very bad and depressed when we got to know that the babies are conjoined twins,” parents Hammed Taiwo, 33, and Suleiman Tawakalitu, 25, told The Epoch Times via email. “[We pursued surgery] because we wanted to see our babies, and to see them one by one.” The husband and wife, of New-Bussa in Niger State, work as an aluminum fabricator and a hairdresser respectively. Their babies’ groundbreaking surgery was overseen by Professor Lukman Abdur-Rahman, consultant pediatric surgeon at Nigeria’s University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH). A 66-member all-Nigerian team separated conjoined twins Habiba and Mahabuba on Jan. 5. The babies were thoraco-omphalopagus conjoined twins, meaning they were joined at the …