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Liputan6.com, Rome: He Pingping, the former record holder for world's shortest man (Guinness World Records) with a high body only 29 inches or 73 centimeters, has died in Italy, earlier Saturday. He breathed his last time to finish filming a television program.

Pingping who is a male Chinese nationals is the Guinness World record holder in March 2008. While filming a television program in Italy, Pingping complained of chest pain. He was immediately referred to a hospital in Rome. Could get treatment, but unfortunately the short closed her eyes forever.

As reported by the Telegraph, Monday (15 / 3), Pingping believed to have died due to heart complications she suffered. Craig Glenday, editor of Guinness World Records and the man who Pingping measure to confirm its status as the world's smallest man, to pay tribute to him.

Glenday said, "When I saw him I knew he was someone special, he seemed to smile naughty and mischievous personality. You can not help but be fascinated by it. He illuminates the lives of everyone who met him, and inspiration for anyone who is considered different or unusual. "

Pingping, born with a form of primordial dwarfism, has been accompanied by brother-in-law on his way to Europe to record movies Lo Show Dei Record. To his successor will be announced at a later date, says Guinness World Records.

Pingping He had held the record for the shortest man in the world. The record was later broken Khagendra Thapa Magar, a citizen of Nepal with a height of 56 centimeters in February earlier [read: World's shortest man campaign to Nowhere Europe]. (RST / ANS)