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Ammon News - The world’s oldest person, Spain’s Maria Branyas Morera, who was born in the US in 1907 and lived through two world wars, has died at the age of 117, her family said on Tuesday.

“Maria Branyas has left us. She died as she wished: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain,” her family wrote on her account on social network X on Tuesday.

“We will always remember her for her advice and her kindness,” they said.

Guinness World Records had officially acknowledged Branyas’s status as the world’s oldest person in January 2023 after the death, aged 118, of the French nun Lucile Randon.

In the wake of Branyas’s death, the oldest living person in the world is Japan’s Tomiko Itooka, who was born on 23 May 1908 and is 116 years old, according to the US Gerontology Research Group.

The Guardian