130 years old: Woman claims to be oldest living person in the world

12 April 2012

A woman in Georgia claims she is the oldest living person in the world - clocking in at 130 years old.

Documents found by the Rustavi 2 TV station in Georgia claim Antisa Khvichava was born on July 8 1880.

Antisa was filmed by the station playing backgammon and drinking vodka.

Antisa lives with her son, one of two surviving children, and grandchildren and great grandchildren in the village of Sachino, deep in the Caucasus Mountains, 170 miles from the capital Tbilisi.

Granddaughter Shorena Khvichava said: "My grandmother is 130 years old."

The station also interviewed Gia Vashadze, an official at Georgia's Civil Registry Agency, who said the agency was hoping to get Antisa into the Guinness Book of World Records.

The world's officially certified 'oldest living person' is currently Japan's 114-year-old Kama Chinen.

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