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‘World’s oldest’ 124-year-old Filipino grandmother dies

Guinness official recognition… Great-grandson: “You won’t get sick when you die”

Filipino grandmother Francisca Sujano dies at the age of 124

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(Hanoi = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Bum-soo = The world’s oldest grandmother in the Philippines has died at the age of 124.

According to the Philippine News Agency (PNA) on the 24th, Francisco Montes Suzano, a resident of Cavankalan, Negros Occidental, died at her home on the 20th.

Born in the southern Negros region of southern Negros in 1897 during Spanish rule, Suzano celebrated her 124th birthday on September 11 this year.

He has 14 children and his eldest daughter is now 101 years old.

According to Cavan Kalansi, Suzano was recognized as the oldest living person in the world by the Guinness World Records until her death.

Philippine Congressman Rodolfo Oldanes has proposed to pay 1 million pesos (23 million won) to Susano this year to commemorate his 124th birthday as a ‘monumental achievement’.

The exact cause of Susano’s death is unknown.

According to the Daily Daily Mail, he showed no symptoms of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

His great-grandson said Susano was not ill or ill at the time of his death.

The previous official record was set by Jeanne Calmain, a French woman who died in September 1997 at the age of 122.

Two months before Susano’s death, a chieftain in Eritrea, Africa, died at the age of 127, his tribe said.

Currently, the world’s oldest person is 118-year-old Japanese grandmother Tanaka Kane.

bumsoo@yna.co.kr