The incredible story of two Georgian twin girls who were separated after birth and found years later, reveals the BBC. The two girls were among thousands of babies in Georgia kidnapped from hospitals and sold, some as recently as 2005.

Amy and Ano are identical twins, but were taken from their mother soon after birth and they sold them to separate families. Years later, they discovered each other by chance thanks to a TV talent show and a TikTok video.

As they searched for details about their past, they realized that they were both born in the same hospital.

They spent the last two years investigating to find out exactly what had happened. The evidence showed that there were tens of thousands of other people in Georgia who had also been abducted from hospitals as babies and sold over the past decades. Despite official efforts to investigate what happened, no one has yet been brought to justice.

Amy and Ano learned of each other’s existence when they were 12 years old.

Amy, watching her favorite television program, Georgia’s Got Talent she saw a girl dancing who looked exactly like her, mentioning her as her family, but they refused to answer. “Everybody has a savior, her mother said.

Seven years later, in November 2021, Amy posted a video of herself with blue hair and an earring on her eyebrow on TikTok.

Two hundred miles (320 kilometers) away in Tbilisi, Ano received a video from a friend. He thought it was “cool that he looks like me”.

Ano tried to locate the girl with the pierced eyebrow online but couldn’t find her, so she shared the video in a university WhatsApp group to see if anyone could help. Someone who knew Amy saw the message and connected them on Facebook.

Amy knew immediately that Ano was the girl he had seen all those years before Georgia’s Got Talent. “I’ve been looking for you for so long!” sent a message. “Me too,” Ano replied.

In the course of their relationship the two girls discovered that they were both born at the now-defunct Kirtskhi maternity hospital in western Georgia, but, according to their birth certificates, their birthdays were two weeks apart.

They decided to ask their families and for the first time they learned the truth. They were adopted, separately, a few weeks apart in 2002.

Investigations revealed that the details on their official birth certificates, including their date of birth, were incorrect.

Amy then found a group on Facebook dedicated to the reunification of Georgian families with children who were allegedly adopted illegally at birth and shared their story.

A young woman in Germany responded, saying that her mother had given birth to twin girls at the Kirtskhi Maternity Hospital in 2002 and that despite being told they had died, she now had some doubts.

DNA tests revealed that the girl from the Facebook group was their sister and lived with their mother Aza in Germany. After a series of revelations the two girls traveled to Germany to meet their biological mother.

In Germany, now Aza hugs them tightly as soon as she sees them. They stay in this position for minutes and embrace without any of them speaking.