The dead body of Chandra Bahadur Dangi, who held the Guinness Book of World Record for world’s shortest man, arrived to Nepal on Friday morning after about a month of his passing away in United States.
Dangi passed away on September 4. Due to different reasons, family members of Dangi had faced had tough time in bringing back his dead body into Nepal.
They further accused the government of neglecting the issue of bringing Dangi’s dead body back into Nepal. His dead body has been kept in Teaching Hospital in Maharajgunj.
Chandra Bahadur Dangi was the shortest man in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence, measuring 54.6 cm (1 ft 9 1⁄2 in).
Dangi was a primordial dwarf. He broke the record of Gul Mohammed (1957–97), the shortest adult human whose height was 57 cm (1 ft 10 in).
Chandra died in American Samoa on 3 September 2015 at the age of 75, at the Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Center in Pago Pago. His last rites is performed today .
