Fears as Nigerian drug carrier dies in Spanish airport, mistaken for Ebola victim

Inside the airport where the Nigerian died

A Nigerian drug mule that collapsed and vomited at the Customs area of the Madrid-Barajas Airport terminal, Spain was allowed to die on the airport floor, without any assistance.

Airport staff left him to his woes because they thought, being from Nigeria, he was suffering from Ebola.

The unidentified Nigerian, who had arrived Spain from Istanbul on 18 October, had sudden health crisis after the cocaine bags inside his body split open. He died 90 minutes after of drug overdose.

Spain’s El Mundo newspaper reported the story today.

It added: ‘A civil guard officer initially positioned the man on his side and identified him from personal documents.

‘When it was clear he was a Nigerian, no one dared touch him.

‘Medical staff decided immediately that there was a risk that this could be a case of Ebola.’

A passenger accompanying the Nigerian later told police that he had flown from Madrid to Istanbul on October 14 and had not been to Nigeria for four years.

Ebola has killed 4,877 people in the past six weeks, almost all of whom were infected with the virus in West Africa.