- Alam Channa
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name = Alam Channa
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birth_date = 1953
birth_place =Sehwan ,Sindh province,Pakistan
death_date = July 2, 1998
death_place =New York
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nationality =Pakistan iAlam Channa (1953,
Sehwan ,Sindh province,Pakistan – July 2, 1998,New York ) was the world's tallest living man at 231.8 cm (7 ft 7¼ in) high. [Guinness Book of World Records 1997] During his life he had been billed at various heights of up to 8 ft 6 in. Channa's abnormal growth was noticed by his family when he ten years old, and continued until he was 26. Channa worked at the shrine ofShahbaz Qalander atSehwan .Fact|date=February 2007Channa died of
kidney failure in a New York hospital and his body was laid to rest in his ancestral town of Dadu,Sindh ,Pakistan . He was survived by his wife Naseem, whom he married in 1989, and had a son. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/125593.stm |title=World's tallest man dies |accessmonthday=22 August |accessyear=2006 |date=3 July 1998 | publisher=BBC online network ]References
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