More than 10,000 Chinese set human domino record
By Associated Press
Aug 13, 2010 7:58 AM CDT
IN this Aug. 12, 2010 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, people play human body domino in Ordos, a city of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. In an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records, 10,267 people finished the human body domino in less than two hours on Thursday....   (Associated Press)

More than 10,000 people in northern China have set a world record for the longest chain of human dominoes.

Arranged in lines, they slowly collapsed backward onto each other in sequence from a sitting position like a line of toppling dominoes.

The 10,267 people who took part wore color-coordinated clothes that spelled out in English and Chinese the name of the city of Ordos in Inner Mongolia where the record attempt was made Thursday.

The monitor the Guinness World Records, Wu Xiaohong, declared the new record.

It beat the record set a decade ago in Singapore by more than 1,000 people.