Alam Channa

Alam Channa

Infobox Person
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 =Pakistani

Alam 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 of Shahbaz Qalander at Sehwan.Fact|date=February 2007

Channa 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 ]

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