12 May,2009 04:36 PM IST | | PTI
The world's oldest woman has died at the age of 130 after slipping in the bathroom of her new flat gifted by Kazakhstan authorities.
Sakhan Dosova never recovered from her fall which broke her hip slipping on the bathroom floor of her new flat gifted to her by local authorities who had found her living in woeful conditions.
The recent census in the city of Karaganda brought her into limelight after the authorities discovered her date of birth was officially registered as 27 March 1879, Dailymail reported.
In an interview in March, she had said: "I don't have any special secret. I've never taken pills and if I was ill, I used grannies' remedies to cure me. I have never eaten sweets. I don't like them."
But she confessed to love kurt, a local delicacy made of salty dried cottage cheese and talkan, ground wheat, the paper reported.
The twice married Dosova was widowed at the Battle of Stalingrad during the Second World War. Only three of her children remain alive.
Dosova's early death snuffed her chances of an official confirmation by international bodies measuring world records. Though demographers have found she was on Stalin's first census of the region in 1926, with her age given as 47 years.
Officially, the oldest living person in the world is American Edna Parker of the US at 114 years old.
