An attempt to break the world record for the largest gathering of twins may have failed on Monday (January 20) in Sri Lanka after an unexpectedly large turnout. <br /><br />Organisers were trying to break Taiwan's Guinness World Record set in 1999 of 3,961 pairs of twins, 37 sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets. <br /><br />Six thousand twins aged between three months to 89 years registered during a five hour period, however they didn't all stay for the mandatory photo or wait for at least five minutes, as per Guinness World Record rules.<br /><br />Organisers have vowed to try again, confident that they will attract a similar number of twins.<br /><br />There was no immediate comment from the Guinness organisation.
