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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Tallest living man between 1982–1998}}<br />
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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Haji Mohammad Alam Channa<br />
| image = Alam Channa.jpg<br />
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| birth_date = {{circa|1954}}<br />
| birth_place = Bachal Channa Village, [[Sehwan]], Sindh, Pakistan<ref>{{cite news |title=Death anniversary of Alam Channa observed |url=https://www.nation.com.pk/03-Jul-2024/death-anniversary-of-alam-channa-observed |access-date=21 November 2024 |work=[[The Nation (Pakistan)|The Nation]] |date=3 July 2024}}</ref><br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1998|07|02|1953}}<br />
| death_place = [[Valhalla, New York]], U.S.<br />
| other_names = [[Channa (tribe)|Channa]]<br />
| height_ft = 7<br />
| height_in = 8<br />
| occupation = Town Committee Employee, Blue Collar Worker at Sehwan Sharif Mazar<br />
}}<br />
'''Haji Mohammad Alam Channa''' (1954 – 2 July 1998) was a Pakistani farmer who was one of the tallest living people with the height of {{Convert|7.8|ft}}.<ref name="orland">{{Cite news|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1998-07-05-9807050333-story.html|title = Haji Mohammad Alam Channa |work=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |date=5 July 1998}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Tallest Man (frm 1982 to 1992 |url=https://arynews.tv/en/remembering-worlds-tallest-man-alam-channa-19th-death-anniversary/ |website=Arynews.tv |date=2 July 2017 |accessdate=22 July 2018}}</ref> According to the [[Guinness World Records|Guinness Book of World Records]], he was the tallest living man in the world between 1982 and 1998. Before his death in 1998, Channa was reported to be {{Convert|7.7|ft}} tall.<ref name="dawn">{{cite news |last=F.Paracha |first=Nadeem |title=Before His Death, His height was 7.7 feet. |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1215250 |work=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]] |date=26 October 2015 |accessdate=22 July 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Born in 1954 in the city of [[Sehwan]] in Sindh, Alam Channa is said to have stood 6&nbsp;ft 4 inches by the time he was 18. He continued to grow taller till he was 26. Channa belonged to an indigent [[Sindhis|Sindhi]] family. He could not get any significant education. He got married in 1989 and have son born in Chicago in August 1990 namely Abid Ali Channa presently he lives in Houston.<ref name="dawn" /> <br />
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In 1981, a man who had watched Channa at the Dargah Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Sehwan Sharif and sent a letter and some photos of Channa to the ''[[Guinness Book of World Records]]''.<br />
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Months later, some officials went to Sehwan and measured Channa at 7&nbsp;ft 8 inches. Channa's was listed in the Guinness book as the tallest living human on earth.<ref name="dawn"/><br />
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==Death==<br />
He suffered from kidney failure and high blood pressure. The government decided to send him to the US and finance his treatment.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-07-12 |title=Haji Mohammad Alam Channa - The tallest man Pakistan |url=http://www.thetallestman.com/mohammadalamchanna.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712215641/http://www.thetallestman.com/mohammadalamchanna.htm |url-status=usurped |archive-date=2018-07-12 |access-date=2024-06-17 }}</ref> He was admitted to the [[Westchester Medical Center]] in Valhalla, New York but died there on Thursday 2 July 1998.<ref name="orland" /> He was buried in Sehwan.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/125593.stm |title=World's tallest man dies |accessdate=22 August 2006 |date=3 July 1998| publisher=[[BBC News Online]] }}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Naseer Soomro]]<br />
*[[List of tallest people]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.saadigitalarchive.org/item/20120917-1113 "Letter from Alam Channa to Sadruddin Noorani" in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)]<br />
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| years = 1982 &ndash; 1998<br />
| after = [[Ri Myung Hun]]<br />
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[[Category:1998 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Sindhi people]]<br />
[[Category:People from Dadu District]]<br />
[[Category:People with gigantism]]<br />
[[Category:Deaths from kidney failure]]<br />
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