New Delhi: 111-year-old Bob Weighton, the oldest man in Britain, is now the world’s oldest man after the death of Japan’s Chitetsu Watanabe at the age of 112.
Born on 29 March 1908, Weighton has been the oldest man in the UK since last summer and has become the oldest man in the world Watanabe died aged 112 on Sunday – days after receiving a Guinness World Record certificate.
Weighton, who turns 112 next month, can now expect to receive a certificate of his own.
However, Weighton said that he would not celebrate the milestone as it wouldn’t be appropriate to celebrate someone else’s demise.
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