A woman who claims to be 130 years old, some 16 years older than the previously known oldest person in the world, is having her papers checked. Sakhan Dosova, reports Xinhua, was born in 1879, the same year as Stalin, and she mothered 10 children and married twice. According to the Daily Mail she has a Soviet era passport and is from Kazakhstan.
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 25 March 2009 at 22:16 | permalink
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