For 26 year old Chika Imaneal, it was a sudden and painful death while on a flight to Doha-Kuala Lumpur as drugs he had ingested burst in his stomach.
Chika, a Nigerian was on a Doha-Kuala Lumpur flight when an emergency landing was requested after he took ill. Medical personnel at the airport declared Chika dead on arrival. The airport authority informed the police about the death, who have registered a case of accidental death.
Upon hearing that the man was from Nigeria, Spanish airport staff were too afraid to approach the man and left him in shivers on the airport floor.
The police sent the body for the post-mortem at Cooper Hospital where the doctors recovered the plastic capsules from the stomach.It is believed that Chika could have been dead due to poisoning.In most such cases, capsules burst inside the stomach and the person dies because of poisoning, a medical expert explained
Commissioner of police, Vishwas Nagre-Patil, said: Doctors have sent the recovered capsules for forensic examination to ascertain the contents. The police suspect that Chika was trying to smuggle the capsules.
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The man collapsed in the customs area of the Madrid-Barajas airport after arriving on a flight from Istanbul, and upon hearing that he was Nigerian, staff refused to touch him (stock image)
The man, who had landed on a flight from Istanbul on October 18, died 90 minutes later from a massive drugs overdose, Spain’s El Mundo newspaper said.
