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The world’s oldest person has died at the age of 116.Susannah Mushatt Jones, who had been living in a care home
in Brooklyn, New York, for more than 30 years, died on Thursday night,Sky News reports..
in Brooklyn, New York, for more than 30 years, died on Thursday night,Sky News reports..
According to Robert Young, of the Los
Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group, which holds a database keeping
tabs of the world’s longest-living people, “”she had been ill for the past 10 days,
Ms Jones – who was known as Miss Susie – was born on 7 July
1899 into a family of 11 in a small farm town near Montgomery, Alabama.
