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World’s Shortest Man Dead
World’s shortest man, according to Guinness book of world records, Khagendra Thapa Magar from Nepal, died on Friday following a battle with pneumonia.
Khagendra Thapa Magar, measured 67.08cm (2 ft 2.41 inches), was first declared the world’s shortest man in 2010 after his 18th birthday. Mr. Magar was first spotted by a traveling salesman when he was 14 and taken to local fairs, where children paid to
Khagendra had been struggling recently with heart problems, asthma, and pneumonia for a very long time.
"We’re terribly sad to hear the news from Nepal that Khagendra is no longer with us," Craig Glenday, GWR’s editor-in-chief, said. The record for the world’s shortest living mobile man has been reverted back to Edward Hernandez, who measures 70.21cm (2ft 3.46in).
