Woman who claims to be real oldest person on earth dies aged 134, government officials say

TASHKENT. KAZINFORM - Guinness World Record's world's oldest person Misao Okawa died on April 1 in Japan on her 117th birthday, but government officials in Uzbekistan said the actual oldest person was a woman named Tuti Yusupova, who passed away at the age of 134 three days before Okawa did.

Her family showed her passport and birth certificates sauing Yusupova was born on 1 July 1880, making her 12 years older than record holder Jeanne Calment, who was 122 when she died in 1997. Chairman of the council of ministers of Karakalpakstan, where Yusupova lived, Bakhadir Yangibaev claimed that the country boasted 8,700 centenarians in a population of 30million, AKI Press reported. Yusupova featured in a BBC documentary when she would apparently have been 128. In 2008, Yusupova was honoured a Shukhrat award by the Uzbekistan government for being over 100 years old. She also became a subject of study for the World Health Organisation into her long life, according to the Independent.