A passenger identified as Dada Isaac Olusola with passport number  A04501199, died on Wednesday, at the arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, after arriving from United States.

The deceased arrived the country with his wife in an Emirates Airlines plane.

The aircraft arrived the Lagos airport at 3:55 p.m.

The passenger, according to a source, slumped while undergoing screening at the airport’s check point.

He was rushed to the airport’s clinic where officials attended to him but died a few minutes later.

Doctors at the clinic confirmed that the passenger died of cardiac arrest.

The deceased remains had been deposited at the morgue.

Officials of Emirates Airlines were yet to comment on the incident.

Public relations consultants to the airline, JSP Communications, said they were yet to be briefed on the incident.