(Daily Star)
Lucy Domachowski Oct 30, 2019 12:13
The world’s “oldest human” has died at the age of 123.
Russian officials have claimed Tanzilya Bisembeyeva has passed away as the world’s oldest person.
Tanzilya was reportedly born in the late-19th century, on March 14, 1896.
She raised four children and she will be survived by ten grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and two great, great-grandchildren.
The great-great-grandmother claimed she was the world's oldest living person in 2016 - after telling officials she had celebrated her 120th birthday.
Pictures emerged of Tanzilya with her family in the village of Alcha in the Krasny Yar district in the region of Astrakhan, southern Russia.
The widow is said to have been born in 1896 and, if her claims are true, she beats the current Guinness World Record holder, Japanese Kane Tanaka, by more than seven years.
Back in 2016, according to the Russian Book of World Records, Tanzilya Bisembeyeva was officially recognized as the world’s oldest living person at the age of 120.
In 2017, Nanu Shaova, who claimed to be 127, from Kabardino-Balkaria, in the North Caucasus, beat her alleged record, becoming Russia’s alleged oldest living person.
However, she died in January 2019, and Bisembeyeva reclaimed her title in Russia.