So Sad! Limbless Nigerian Girl Rahma Haruna Who Lived in a Bowl Dies at 19 on Christmas Day

Rahma Haruna, a 19-year-old girl from, Kano, Nigeria, who has no limbs and lived most of her life in a plastic bowl, has died.

The girl many called ‘the plastic woman’ whose limbs stopped developing when she was 6 months because of an illness, reportedly passed away on the 25th of December.

A family member said Rahma suddenly died after a brief illness. Confirming the sad news, Sani Maikatanga posted her photo on Instagram and wrote:

”Rahma Haruna, a 19-year-old girl has passed away on Sunday 25th of December 2016. May Almighty grant her Jannatul Firdausi … amen. She started with a fever and that was it. Then stomach pains. Then her body parts like hands and legs. She cannot use any if the ache strikes,” the family member wrote.

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For much of her life, Rahma’s family would carry her in her bowl, with her brother, Fahad, taking her into Kano each day to beg for alms.

Later, a journalist Ibrahim Jirgi, gave the family a wheelchair. Despite her severe disability, Rahma had entrepreneurial ambition.

Her mother, Fadi, said, “From six months when she learnt how to sit that was when it began. She didn’t learn how to crawl. She started with a fever and that was it. Then stomach pains. Then her body parts like hands and legs. She cannot use any if the ache strikes.”

May her soul rest in peace.

Photo credit: Sani Maikatanga/Barcroft Image