Health fears for 10-month-old baby who already weighs the same as an average girl aged six

Aliya Saleem, of Jharkhand, India, was born at a relatively large 9lbs, then began to rapidly gain weight from the age of four months - and is now as heavy as an average six-year-old girl. Her parents are worried about her health, after another of their children died aged just one-and-a-half after gaining weight in a similar fashion.

 The girl's mother Shabana Parveen (pictured inset), 25, said: 'A few months after her birth, she starting gaining weight. We had to buy her a new pair of clothes every two weeks because the old ones become too tight for her.