MEET THE WORLD'S OLDEST MAN ALIVE AT 141 YEARS OLD

Feroz-un-Din Mir, from Kashmir, Indian claims he is 141 years old - which would make him the oldest person alive. He says he has a government certificate proving he was born on March 10, 1872.

If this is correct he would be 26 years older than Misao Okawa, the 115-year-old current record holder. He would also overtake Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment as the oldest person to have ever lived. Ms Calment died in 1997 at the age of 122.

Mr Mir is married to a woman in her eighties, Misra, and has outlived four other wives. He can still walk with help from his family, has some of his eyesight left, and can talk about his extraordinary life in his native tongue Pahari.

Mr Mir married his first wife in the 1890s, he married his first wife and lived with her in Pakistan until her death in the early 1900s.

Staff from Guinness World Records are said to be investigating the claim.

See pictures of Ms Calment and Jiroemon Kimura

Ms Calment, oldest person to have ever lived died at 122 years old in 1997

Jiroemon Kimura died last month at 115 years