Mohammad Alam Channa was the world's tallest living man at 232.4 cm (7 ft 7 inch) high. During his life he had been billed at various heights of up to 9 ft 6 while working at a circus.

Channa's abnormal growth was noticed by his family when he was ten years old, and continued until he was 26. Channa worked at the shrine of Shahbaz Qalander at Sehwan.

In 1998 Channa went to United States in order to get treatments for various ailments including high blood pressure , diabetes and Kidney malfunction . Channa died of kidney failure in a New York hospital and his body was laid to rest in his ancestral town of Dadu, Sindh

Sindh

Sindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can...

, Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. He was survived by his wife Naseem, whom he married in 1989, and had a son.