DHAKA, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Barsha, one of the conjoined twins separated at a hospital in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on Wednesday, died about seven and a half hours after the operation, local newspaper The Daily Star reported Friday.

    Doctors of hospital of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) were quoted as saying the baby could not stand the trauma of the seven-hour-long surgical operation.

    Bonya, the other twin, is still kept in the Intensive Care Unit(ICU) of the hospital and is not out of danger, the doctors said, adding that they are closely monitoring her condition round the clock.

    "She has some temperature and pain because of the long operation," BSMMU's Paediatric Surgery Department Chairman Shafiqul Haque said.

    Shahnaz Begum, the twins' mother, lost consciousness several times following her daughter's death.

    "You know how hard we have tried to save our children. We were aware of the risks of the surgery, yet it is very difficult to accept a daughter's death," the girls' father Golam Kibria, a primary school teacher was quoted as saying.

    "We would do everything to save the other child," he said.

    Six teams of 68 members including over 40 doctors took part in the surgery to separate the twins aged four months and 12 days. The twins were conjoined at their livers, intestines and gallbladders, chest bones and abdomen.

    The babies regained consciousness soon after the surgery and were kept at the ICU. Barsha had to be given ventilation support for breathing problem.

    "Barsha's blood pressure started going down at 10:00 p.m. Wednesday. The girl died at 11:20 p.m.," Shafiq said.

    The twins were born in a clinic in Gaibandha district, 268 km northwest of capital Dhaka, on March 24 and were transferred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital the next day. They had been undergoing treatment at BSMMU since April 4 under Shafiq's supervision.