World's oldest person dies in NY, aged 116

By Reuters, New York
13 May 2016, 18:00 PM
UPDATED 14 May 2016, 00:17 AM
The world's oldest living person, 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones, died on Thursday in New York City, a research

The world's oldest living person, 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones, died on Thursday in New York City, a research group said. Jones was born in the southern US state of Alabama in 1899. Her death makes Emma Morano-Martinuzzi, a 116-year-old woman in Italy, the oldest living person.