Houston police are awaiting autopsy results on a Nigerian man, who died at about 8:25 a.m. Tuesday on a US-bound flight out of Lagos.
The male, Benedict Sylvester Igwedike, 67, of Lagos, Nigeria, died on board a United Airlines flight.
According to HPD Homicide Division Senior Police Officer, M. Miller, patrol officers responded to a deceased male who was on board the United Airlines flight #143 arriving from Lagos, Nigeria.
Miller said: "Further investigation determined Mr. Igwedike passed away shortly after the flight departed from Nigeria.
"The flight was then rerouted to Dakar, Senegal. After refuelling, authorities in Senegal rerouted the flight to Houston."
The investigation is pending Igwedike's cause of death says Miller.
Late last month, a woman traveling to Houston from Qatar to seek medical treatment died en route.
Fatimah M. Alsiari, 49, a citizen of Saudi Arabia, died a few hours into the nonstop flight from Doha,
Qatar, said Houston Police Department spokeswoman Jodi Silva.
A physician on Qatar Airways Flight QR077 tended to the woman but could not save her, Silva had said.
Source: www.chron.com
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