A farmer believed to be the oldest person on the planet has died at the remarkable age of 125 years and 300 days. Marcelino Abad Tolentino, affectionately known as Mashico, lived his whole life in a remote Peruvian village. He was discovered by the government's Pension 65 programme during the Covid-19 pandemic, when he was issued his first ever identity document alongside a state pension . He quickly became a nationally celebrated figure. Mashico, who was raised as an orphan, passed away

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