World's shortest man Chandra Dangi dies in American Samoa after suffering from pneumonia

The shortest man in history has died from pneumonia at the age of 75. Chandra Dangi of Nepal, who was just 21.5ins, was declared the shortest human adult ever documented and verified in 2012. He died at the Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Center in Pago Pago in American Samoa in the Pacific this morning following a brief illness.Family friend Sujit Dilip, owner of India’s well-known Rambo Circus, based in Pune, said: ‘Today, our circus is flooded with tears at the loss of the world’s smallest man...whom we lovingly called Prince Chandra.’

Mr Dangi broke the record in 2012 when he was crowned by Guinness World Records in Kathmandu, Nepal.

A spokeswoman at the hospital said he died of an undisclosed disease but it was believed he’d been suffering from pneumonia, as reported by the Kathmandu Post.

He was being treated in Nepal but travelled the 7,500 miles to American Samoa for an appearance and had to be rushed to hospital after his symptoms worsened.

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