Kathmandu: The world's shortest man, Chandra Bahadur Dangi from Nepal, today died in a hospital in Samoa Islands, a US territory, according to a media report.

After falling sick, 75-year-old Dangi, who was touring Samoa Islands in the South Pacific, was admitted to a local hospital where he breathed his last at around 12:00 pm, said Thaneswar Guragai who had been assisting Dangi in various tour programmes.