The British diplomat who slumped and died yesterday at the Murtala International Airport Lagos (MMAIA), Lagos has been identified as the Deputy British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Carter Parker Leslie.
Parker, who arrived aboard an American Airline, Delta Air Lines, sources said took ill while on midair, and died at the arrival hall shortly after disembarking from the plane around 3pm.
Passengers said before he died he was shouting, “ Help! Help! and then slumped, but people did not want to go near initially because of the Ebola scare that has been in town,” the official added.
However medics attached to the terminal tried to revive him, but without success.
Meanwhile, airport officials said 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.