German traveller dies after slumping at Lagos airport

A German national, Mr Bernard Christo, slumped at the General Aviation Terminal of the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos on Friday, NAN reports.

Mr Christo has died as he couldn’t recover from the collapse, the spokesman for the Lagos Airport Police Command, DSP Joseph Alabi, confirmed.

Alabi said on Saturday that the German, who was waiting to board a local Arik Air flight on Friday morning when he suddenly collapsed, died at an undisclosed hospital.

Mr Christo had been quickly attended to medical personnel attached to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, before he was taken to a hospital.

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“What happened was that a passenger en route Benin, when he was boarding had slumped,” Mr Simon Tumba, the media consultant to Arik Air, confirmed the development.

“And Arik being a responsible carrier promptly contacted the medical team from FAAN, who took him to the hospital where he later died.”