It may have been April Fool's Day, but what happened to civil servant Humphrey Chin and his financial consultant wife Dorothy on April 1, 1997, was no joke.
The couple were expecting four babies, so it came as a surprise when a fifth bundle of joy was born at KK Women's and Children's Hospital - after going undetected in pregnancy scans.
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