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Unofficial world's oldest man dies aged 116 in South Africa

Fredie Blom celebrating his 116th birthday at his home in Delft, near Cape Town, earlier this year. [AFP]

A 116-year-old survivor of the 1918 Spanish Flu believed to be among the world's oldest people died Saturday in South Africa, his family said.

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