KALADAN NEWS

Dated- Tue, June 03, 2003

WORLD’S OLDEST WOMAN DIED IN BANGLADESH

(Whether belief or not)

Chittagong, June 3: An old woman named Begum

Poirunessa, presumed to be the oldest woman in the

world, died on 1st June 2003, night at her

Chargobindapur residence under Sujanagar Upazila at

the age of 151, according to BBS of Pabna.

Family sources said she was born in 1852 and married

Ketu Sheikh of Chardulai village of the same Upazila

at the age of 10.But she lost her first husband after

six years following the birth of her first child.

Later, she knotted tie with Abdul Pramanik of

Chargobindapur village. She had 167 grandsons and

granddaughters and her youngest granddaughter died

last year at the age of 95.

Earlier, she shoots into prominence when newspapers

and electronic media made exclusive reports on her.

Hundreds of local people went to the residence of the

deceased as soon as her death news spread. She was

buried at a local graveyard on that day.

Editor

Kaladan Press Network

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