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Karbi Anglong (Assam) [India], January 21 (ANI): A total of 721 Karbi men in Bokolia, Karbi Anglong, used to the traditional sport of Kengdongdang, set a new Guinness world record on Sunday. The sport entails racing to a finishing line on bamboo stilts. The stilt-walkers gathered at the Bokolia Bypass near Diphu, the headquarters of central Assam’s Karbi Anglong, on Sunday to move in a 2 km-long single line for 10 minutes to set the world record. “The benchmark was 250 people but 721 people participated to set the new record for the longest line of people walking on stilts,” Rishi Nath, the of…