KABUL, Afghanistan — Two bomb blasts targeted a group of lawmakers touring a factory north of Kabul today, killing at least 64 people, including five parliamentarians, the deadliest attack in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

The bombs went off outside a sugar factory in the northern province of Baghlan as the lawmakers were about to enter. The twin blasts struck school children, Afghan elders and government officials gathered to greet the visiting delegation, officials said.

At least 64 people were killed. Five members of parliament were among those killed, an official said.

BANGALORE, India — Doctors began operating today on a 2-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs in an extensive surgery that they hope will leave the girl with a normal body, a hospital official said.The girl named Lakshmi is joined to a "parasitic twin" who stopped developing in the mother's womb. The surviving fetus absorbed the limbs, kidneys and other body parts of the undeveloped fetus.A team of 30 doctors was removing the extra limbs and organs. They have separated the fused spines and the next step will be to separate the extra limbs, said Dr. Sharan Patil, the orthopedic surgeon leading the operation."As of now, the child has been responding very well," Patil said several hours into the operation.Lakshmi is named after the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth, and some in her village in the northern state of Bihar revere her. "Everybody considers her a goddess at our village," said her father, Shambhu, who goes by one name.The complications for Lakshmi's surgery are myriad: The two spines are merged, she has four kidneys, entangled nerves, two stomach cavities and two chest cavities. She cannot stand up or walk."It's a big team effort of a lot of skilled surgeons who will be putting their heart and soul into solving the problem of Lakshmi," Patil said earlier in the day. "It's going to take many, many hours on a continuous basis to operate on the baby. So, these issues definitely make it complex."Patil put the risk of losing Lakshmi between 20 percent and 25 percent.

WASHINGTON — Trying to head off a Turkish attack in northern Iraq, President Bush on Monday told Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the United States will share military intelligence in the hunt for Kurdish terrorists.The assurance seemed to satisfy Erdogan, who said later: "I'm happy."The meeting of the leaders was viewed as pivotal in influencing the next move by Turkey, which is weighing a military strike against terrorist forces in Iraq.With thousands of Turkish troops massed on the border of his country, Erdogan maintained that Turkey has the authority to mount a cross-border incursion. He said nothing to remove that option from consideration.But in an Oval Office session, Bush seemed to successfully convey that the U.S. is committed to combatting the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. The separatist group in Iraq, deemed a terrorist organization by the U.S., is responsible for killing more than 40 Turks in the past month in raids.