Lakshmi out of danger

An Indian girl born with four legs and four arms appeared in public for the first time yesterday since a gruelling operation to remove her extra limbs. Lakshmi Tatma, 2, looked subdued, her legs in a blue cast.

"She will be out of intensive care today," Dr Sharan Patil, who lead a team in Lakshmi's surgery, said at the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore. "We have taken her off all the monitoring. She is coping very well."

Lakshmi will still need another operation to correct her club feet.