Sunday, November 1, 2009

Somalia Men Aged 112 Years, Married Again With A Girl


A man who claimed 112-year-old had married a 17-year-old girl at a wedding ceremony in central Somalia, this marriage is a marriage of a total of six, but it is the first marriage in three-quarters of a century old, he said.

"My wife is ten times younger than me, but we love each other so much and I believe that I can give him the kind of love that not every youth can give," said Ahmed Mohamed Dhore told AFP.

"Life in marriage was related about love and passion rather than just age and beauty," said the prince of marriage the old man, who own wedding ceremony took place in the town of Guriel and attended by hundreds of people last week.

"The first time I got married so long I can not remember it and about the last time I got married about 75 years ago, I was young at the time," he said.

Dhore growing up as the leader of Somali nationalists who styled "Mad Mullah," Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, who fought against the British empire and created the state Dervish died in 1920.

He said the secret to long-lived enough to undergo three different times is "eating healthy foods when she was young".

"I'm 112 years old and can live life as a young man ... The idea of getting married again come from the children and grandchildren-beak," he said while explaining that her only other surviving 90 years old and in sickly condition. (fq / aby)

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