World’s shorted man dies aged 75

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LONDON: Guinness World record holder, World shortest man died of an undisclosed illness in American Samoa.

Nepal’s Chandra Bahadur Dangi was just 21.5 inches tall (54.6 cm). He died late Thursday at the Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Center in Pago Pago.

The 75-year-old lived in a remote village around 400 kilometres (248 miles) from Kathmandu but travelled the world after he was officially declared the world s smallest man, posing for a photograph with world s tallest man Sultan Kosen in 2013.