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	'World's oldest woman' dies at 130... after slipping in bath

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5-11-2009 11:58 PM

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Once she was discovered, local officials rushed to congratulate her and provide her with new housing and gifts.

The mayor of Karaganda, Islam Togaybayev, went to visit her 'to personally congratulate her on such an achievement and show his respect', said his spokesman.

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5-12-2009 10:04 PM

tanyamm

What a way to go, slipping and falling in the new place that was supposed to make you comfortable.

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<P class="imageCaption">Ten years old when Hitler was born: Sakhan Dosova, who apparently turned 130 on March 27, in a recent picture</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1180580/Worlds-oldest-woman-dies-130--slipping-bathroom-new-flat-given-celebrate-age.html">A woman thought to be the world's oldest person at 130 has died after slipping on the bathroom floor of her new flat. 
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1180580/Worlds-oldest-woman-dies-130--slipping-bathroom-new-flat-given-celebrate-age.html">Sakhan Dosova broke her hip in a fall last month and never recovered. 
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1180580/Worlds-oldest-woman-dies-130--slipping-bathroom-new-flat-given-celebrate-age.html">She had been given the flat by officials in Kazakhstan who were embarrassed she was living in overcrowded conditions with her impoverished family. 
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1180580/Worlds-oldest-woman-dies-130--slipping-bathroom-new-flat-given-celebrate-age.html">Her age came to light after a census in the city of Karaganda. Demographers also found she was on Stalin's first census of the region in 1926, with her age given as 47.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1180580/Worlds-oldest-woman-dies-130--slipping-bathroom-new-flat-given-celebrate-age.html"><A class="lightboxPopupLink" rel="Proof?: Note the birth date on her Kazakh identity card - March 27, 1879" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/24/article-0-04123163000005DC-944_468x389_popup.jpg"><IMG width="468" height="389" class="blkBorder" alt="Proof?: Note the birth date on her Kazakh identity card - March 27, 1879" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/24/article-0-04123163000005DC-944_468x389.jpg" />
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<P class="imageCaption">Proof?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1180580/Worlds-oldest-woman-dies-130--slipping-bathroom-new-flat-given-celebrate-age.html">'She broke her hip in the fall and never recovered,' said a neighbour.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1180580/Worlds-oldest-woman-dies-130--slipping-bathroom-new-flat-given-celebrate-age.html">The woman's date of birth was officially registered as 27 March 1879, and was shown on her documents including her Soviet era passport and independent Kazakhstan identity card.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1180580/Worlds-oldest-woman-dies-130--slipping-bathroom-new-flat-given-celebrate-age.html">Until the recent census, however, her fame did not extend beyond her far-flung city.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B4F0CD79-3A93-410A-8622-97673B3345B0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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