MADRID (AFP) –- A Spanish woman who became the world's oldest person to give birth in 2006 when she had twin boys at the age of 67 using in vitro fertilization has died, newspapers reported Wednesday.

Carmen Bousada died Saturday at the age of 69, her brother Ricardo told dailies Diario de Cadiz and Barcelona-based El Periodico de Catalunya without giving the cause of death.
But a year after she gave birth to Cristian and Pau, sparking a worldwide debate over the ethics of fertility treatments for older women which her death is likely to revive, she told Spanish television that she had cancer.
Bousada's brother told El Periodico that he had sold exclusive details of her death to a television program which he did not identify, saying only that the illness was “very hard, she was in a really bad state recently”.
He said the proceeds from the sale of the details of her death to the television show would go towards looking after the twins, who are now two-and-a-half years old.
It was not clear who would now raise the boys. Bousada told Spanish television in December 2007 shortly after she was diagnosed with cancer that family members could care for them if she died.
“I have a nephew, and their godfather is very good with the children. They are not going to be alone,” she said at the time.
Bousada gave birth to the boys on December 26, 2006 at Barcelona hospital.