China’s oldest person, who is also claimed to be the oldest person ever, has died at the age of 135 in her local township.

Alimihan Seyiti, from Komuxerik in Shule County in the north-western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, died on 16th December.

According to the county’s Publicity Department, Seyiti was born on June 25, 1886, during the imperial Qing dynasty.

If true, this would have made her the oldest person ever, though this has not been internationally confirmed.

She married in 1903 when she was 17 and adopted a son and a daughter with her husband who passed away in 1976, and went on to have 43 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The China Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics reported that she was the country’s oldest living citizen in 2013.