World’s tallest woman dead

This file picture taken on May 18, 2002, shows Asia's tallest woman, China's Yao Defen at 2.3 meters (7.54 feet) thanking the doctors and nurses at the Sanjiu hospital in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, where she had been undergoing treatment to halt her growth.

A Chinese woman who was certified as the tallest in the world has died, an official from her hometown said on December 5. Yao Defen, of eastern China's Anhui province, was listed as the worlds tallest woman by Guinness World Records in 2010, when she stood 2.33 metres (seven foot eight inches) high, according to the record compilers website.

AFP