A top British diplomat on Tuesday slumped and
died at the Murtala Muhammed International
Airport, security officials at the flagship airport
said.
The envoy, who was said to have arrived aboard
a United Airlines flight, died at the arrival hall
shortly after disembarking from the plane around
3pm.
A top security operative at the airport said the
diplomat might have died of heart-related
complications.
“He was shouting help! Help! and then slumped.
People did not want to go near initially because
of the Ebola scare that has been in town,” the
official added.
The spokesman for the Federal Airport Authority
of Nigeria, Mr. Yakubu Dati, confirmed that
somebody died at the airport but said the
identity of the person had yet to be ascertained.
“Someone died at the airport. Port Health
officials are on the matter. We cannot confirm
the identity now,” he said.
Also, the Commissioner of Police, Airport
Command, Mr. Wahab Salau, also confirmed that
a foreigner had died at the airport on Tuesday
afternoon.
He, however, said the identity of the person had
yet to be ascertained.
Airport officials confirmed that officials from the
British embassy came to evacuate the corpse
from the airport at about 7.45pm.
“Some officials of the British Embassy came to
evacuate the body of the diplomat that died at
the airport this evening,” a top security official at
the airport who did not want to be quoted said.
When contacted last night, the British High
Commission spokesman, Robert Fitzpatrick, in a
text message said, he could not confirm the
passage of the diplomat.
He said, “I can’t confirm anything at the
moment, but would ask that you exercise
restraint in your publication until I am able to
come back to you.”

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