Last updated: 29 october, 2009 - 07:19 GMT

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A Somali widower who says he's 112 years old has married his sixth wife - and at just 17 she is young enough to be his great great grand-daughter.

They married at a ceremony attended by hundreds in the town of Gurieel.

And, according to the BBC's Mohamed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu, Somalia's historians and veterans are hailing the marriage as the first of its kind in the country for over a century....

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