World's tallest woman dies in China

Beijing - the highest in the world, was certified as a Chinese woman who has died, her hometown, an official said.

Of Yao Defen, east China's Anhui Province, according to records of the compiler, the high 2.33 meters (seven feet eight inches) stood in 2010 when Guinness World Records, the world's tallest woman, as was recorded.

"Yao Defen of the dead in the middle of last month," Yao Shucha town where I lived, a government spokesman, told AFP by telephone.

The official, who declined to give his name to the cause of his death was nothing.

When he died in Yao, the third tallest woman who ever lived, as recorded, was 40. Gigantism because it allegedly had a tumor in her pituitary gland.

They reach a height of 2.36 meters, 13 November, a newspaper Anhui died when she was 15, she was already more than two meters tall, he reported.