Meat seller slumps, dies while attending to customers in Lagos

In the Mafoluku neighbourhood of Lagos State, a male meat vendor who has not yet been named collapsed and died while tending to a customer on Branco Street.

According to PUNCH Metro, the deceased was responding to a customer in the neighbourhood when the event occurred on Monday at around 5 o'clock.

The deceased had completed selling the meat and was waiting for payment, according to an eyewitness who only went by the name Tunde, when he abruptly slumped.

 He said, “The man is a regular meat hawker in this area and he was hawking along the street as usual when a woman called him to sell meat for her. When he got to the woman’s place, he brought down his meat and negotiation went on for a while. He later sold the meat to her when they both reached an agreement.

“It was at the point when the woman was about to pay him that he suddenly fell to the ground. That was how the woman quickly raised the alarm.”

Tunde added that efforts were made to resuscitate him on the spot.

“Later, some people tried to resuscitate him but all to no avail. His body was lying on the floor for close to 30 minutes. It was later that some of the residents hired a commercial bus to convey his body to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead,” he added.

Benjamin Hundeyin, the state police's public relations officer, confirmed the occurrence.

“The man slumped and died. He probably had an underlining health issue. There was no foul play. The corpse has been deposited in the mortuary,” the PPRO said.

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