The Ahmed Quintuplets

Extreme Multiples

Doctors check Egyptian quintuplets at the intensive care unit of al-Nile hospital in Cairo in 2002. The quintuplets, three boys and two girls, were born by Caesarian section. Their parents, mother, Amal Yousif Tolba and father, Wagih Mohammed Ahmed already have two other children. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

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