World's oldest person dies at 117

Spanish pensioner Maria Branyas Morera, who was born in the United States and survived the plague and two world wars, died at 117 years of age, has discovered her family.

Maria Branyas left us. She died as she wished, asleep, quiet and painless”, her family wrote in “X”.

Branyas lived in her last two decades at the home of elderly Santa Maria del Tura in the town of Olot in northeastern Spain and celebrated her 117th birthday there in March.

Experts were amazed at her mental and physical health.