Woman said to be oldest person in world celebrates 131st birthday

A woman claimed to be the world’s oldest person celebrated her 131st birthday on Sunday with some of her 56 descendants in attendance.

The China News Service reports that Alimiha Seiti was born on June 15, 1886.

Alimiha, who lives in Shule County in the Kashgar region of China’s western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, says she loves talking to people and often sings when she is in a good mood

But Guinness World Records, with a different standard of proof of age, lists Jeanne Calment as the world’s oldest ever person.

Frenchwoman Ms Calment was born in 1875 and died in 1997, having lived 122 years and 164 days.