Abdul Rasheed is nine years old, Shoaib Ahmed – 13. They live in Pakistan and are brothers. They spend the day like any child their age. At night, it goes out. The case of the two boys goes around the world, and the doctors are still trying to figure out what is happening to them.
The children of the sun, as they were called by the outside press, are a rare and inexplicable case. At sunset, the two brothers go into a coma: they are completely paralyzed, unable to speak, although they hear what is happening around them.
Professor Dr. Javed Akram of the Pakistani Institute of Medical Sciences is researching this unique phenomenon: “We believe we owe it to ourselves to find out what is happening to them. Our specialists performed a lot of tests, trying to understand why these boys, who are very active during the day, completely lose their strength with the arrival of night and cannot even open their eyes “, he said, according to DailyMail.co .uk.
In this photo taken on Thursday, May 5, 2016, Pakistani children Abdul Rasheed, 9, left, and Shoaib Ahmed, 13, lie exhausted in a bed at a hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan. The boys are normal active children during the day. But once the sun goes down, they both lapse into a vegetative state – unable to move or talk. Dr. Javed Akram told The Associated Press on Thursday that he had no idea what was causing the symptoms. (AP Photo / B.K. Bangash)
Mohammad Hashim, the boys’ father, is desperate and no longer hopes to find out what kind of mysterious condition torments his children.
Abdul and Shoaib have already done 300 tests and investigations, but no one has been able to really figure out the cause of their condition. The only explanation that the doctors found would be that everything is determined by a genetic anomaly, caused by incest: the children’s parents are cousins.