ALGIERS, Jan 12 (KUNA) -- Algeria's oldest man Mubarak Muammar Rahmani died
Sunday at the age of 130 after suffering from stomach illness.
According to the state news agency (APS), Rahmani was born in 1884 in Al
Oued Province, south of Algiers, near the Algerian-Libyan borders.
Rahmani entered the hospital for the first time in his life just two years
ago. He had married three times and had nearly 100 grandsons and
granddaughters.
He witnessed the first and second world wars, the Algerian revolution
against the French occupation, the global economic crisis of 1929, Arab defeat
in 1948 in Palestine, the joy of Algeria's independence in 1962 and different
times of prosperity and hardship in Algeria.
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R.I.P for that man.
ReplyDeleteI have also heard of a Kazakh women who was 130 years old but I am not sure whether it was true or not and also not sure whether she was still alive or not.