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American woman dies at 116, days after becoming world's oldest person

Days after becoming the world's oldest person, American Gertrude Weaver has died at the age of 116, US media reported.
      
Weaver died Monday morning of complications from pneumonia, reports said.
      
Weaver passed away at the Silver Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center in the southern state of Arkansas, local TV station KATV reported.