World’s oldest known person, French nun Lucile Randon, dies at 118

Sister Andree was born in 1904 and survived an outbreak of Covid-19 in 2021 in her nursing home that killed 10 other residents

The world's oldest known person, French nun Lucile Randon, has died aged 118, a spokesperson has said.

Randon, known as Sister Andree, was born in southern France on 11 February 1904, when the first world war was still a decade away.