A five-year-old Indian girl with a rare condition which caused her head to swell to twice its normal size has died. Roona Begum, who made international headlines after images of her condition first appeared in 2013, passed away on Sunday at her home in a village in remote northeastern India.
The girl’s mother, said she developed breathing difficulties and was rushed to hospital, but died on the way. Roona had been just days away from a fresh round of surgeries in an attempt to return her head to normal size.