The black Brazilian couple and their three albino children...

A black mother has baffled scientists after giving birth to three albino children.

Parents Rosemere Fernandes de Andrade and her partner Joao are dark-skinned Afro-Brazilians, yet three of their five children are albinos.

Genetics professor Valdir Balbino of the Federal University of Pernambuco said this is a very rare occurrence considering the parents and two other children are black.

The family live in the slum of Olinda in north-east Brazil and the children have faced taunts by fellow pupils at their school. More + photos...

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