Doctors remove skeleton of baby left inside mother for 36 YEARS

Doctors believe the Indian woman Kantabai Thakre, 60, may have had the world's longest ectopic pregnancy, after becoming pregnant at the age of 24, in 1978. Doctors at the time warned her the baby had little chance of surviving because it was growing outside of the womb. Terrified at the thought of an operation, Ms Thakre fled. Thirty-six years later when she started to experience pain in her stomach, she sought medical attention. An MRI scan, left, revealed a child's skeleton in her abdomen. Surgeons operated to remove the bones which had formed into a hard mass in her stomach, right. Dr Murtaza Akhtar, head of surgery at the hospital, said: 'It could be the world's longest ectopic pregnancy.'