Nazar Singh, Europe’s oldest man passed away

London, June 24: Nazar Singh, the oldest man of Europe passed away in India at the age of 111, a media report said.

Nazar Singh, a great-grandfather who celebrated his 111 birthday on June 8, breathed his last at his native Fazilpur village in Jalandhar district The Guardian reported.

Born in Punjab in 1904, he moved to England in 1965, living first in Walsall, West Midlands, where he worked in a foundry, then retiring to the north-east in 1989, living with one of his nine children.

With 34 grandchildren and 63 great-grandchildren, Singh was always surrounded by family, said his grandson, Harvinder Gill, 31. "He was an incredible chap," Gill, from Ashbrooke, Sunderland, said. "He has lived a very happy and fulfilling life.

Nazar Singh's cremation is set to be held ton Wednesday at the village crematorium.

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