Photos: Once the world's heaviest man who weighed 560 kgs, dies

[caption id=“attachment_1545845” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Manuel Uribe, worlds heaviest man died on 26 May. This file photo of Uribe from August 2008, shows him talking on the phone. He weighed 330 kgs at the time the photo was taken. Reuters[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1545849” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Members of the Civil Protection secure a king size bed, refitted with a metal frame and a plastic tarp, holding the body of the late Manuel Uribe on its way to the crematorium. Uribe, 48, died at a local hospital where he was admitted a few days ago due health complications and cardiac arrhythmia, local media reported. Reuters[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1545853” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Uribe, who at 560 kilograms was possibly the heaviest person in the world for which he holds the Guinness World Record. Too heavy to move, Manuel Uribe, who weighed more than a small truck in January 2006, lost 235 kilos on a diet of grapefruits, egg-white only omelets, fish, chicken, vegetables and peanuts. He weighed 330 kilos when the photo was taken in 2006. Agencies[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1545861” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Too heavy to move, Manuel Uribe, who weighed more than a small truck in January 2006, lost 235 kilos on a diet of grapefruits, egg-white only omelets, fish, chicken, vegetables and peanuts. He weighed 330 kilos when the photo was taken in 2006. Reuters[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1545859” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Manuel Uribe jokes as he holds a fruit cake with his girlfriend Claudia Solis outside his house in June 2008. Uribe, once the world’s most obese man, celebrated his 43rd birthday that year with a very short trip outside his house. Reuters[/caption]