CONFUSED ambulance crew did a double take when called out to help a woman with an ankle injury.

The same staff had treated her sister the day before and couldn't tell them apart.

The crew, from Blackburn, were called to Zareena Khan's house in Rhyl Avenue, Blackburn, after she tumbled down a concrete step.

At first they thought she was the same woman they had treated the day before for a fractured wrist after she fell at a children's play area at Ribchester.

Ambulance technician David Haworth said: "We asked where the pot on her arm was but she said that had been her sister, Meena. They looked very alike." But Zareena insists it is the first time the pair have every been mistaken for each other.

She said: "There are four sisters altogether and we are aware that we do look alike. But its the first time anybody has ever said we're almost identical.'

Zareena has had her ankle put in a cast after her fall and will be unable to walk without the aid of crutches for two weeks.

But the 27 year old mum is more concerned about her sister Meena, 30, currently in Blackburn Royal Infirmary after her wrist injury had to be operated on twice. Hospital staff describe her condition as "comfortable."

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