4 Arriving Passengers From US Collapse At Muritala Mohammed Airport Lagos Due To Heat!

There was pandemonium at the Muritala Muhammed International
Airport (MMIA) Lagos, yesterday evening when four passengers who
arrived the city from Atlanta in the United States of America,
collapsed due to excessive heat at the arrival hall of the airport
terminal.
According to Leadership Newspaper, the passengers, who had arrived
aboard Delta Airline, were waiting for baggage reclaim when the
4 who had just arrived from the US where the temperature is much
cooler, got overwhelmed by the heat in the arrival area and collapsed.
A source close to the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) told
LEADERSHIP Weekend that the cooling system at the airport was not
working when the incident happened and that it might be due to the
current remodelling of the airport.
It was learnt that two of the passengers were rushed to an
undisclosed hospital in an ambulance belonging to the Federal
Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN)
In his reaction to the development, the general manager, public affairs
of FAAN, Yakubu Dati, said the situation was exaggerated by online
reports.
Another FAAN official contacted who preferred anonymity said the
unhealthy situation at the arrival hall of the airport was not new to
most air travellers who had had to contend with it as they passed
through immigration and baggage collection.
For those coming from Europe it is like coming from an
extremely cold environment to an extremely hot environment and
passengers have to sweat it out as they go through immigration
formalities and then through the tortuous collection of their in
luggage,” he said.