A 52-year-old man, Salihu Byezhe, has died after slumping throughout Subhi (early morning) prayers at a mosque in Gudaba village, Kuje Space Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Friday.
Eyewitnesses mentioned the incident occurred on Thursday after Byezhe had completed consuming Sahur (pre-dawn meal forward fasting), carried out ablution, and joined different worshippers for prayers.
A resident of Gudaba, Musa Dantani, who was current on the scene, recounted how Byezhe abruptly collapsed mid-prayer.
“Prayers have been ongoing when he abruptly slumped, and a few Muslims contained in the mosque rapidly held him and conveyed him to the hospital. He was nonetheless respiration on the way in which, however sadly, he gave up upon arrival,” Dantani mentioned.
A medical physician on the hospital in Kuje later confirmed Byezhe’s loss of life, attributing it to hypertension.
Our correspondent gathered that the deceased had been managing hypertension, which can have spiked in the course of the morning prayers.
One among Byezhe’s sons, who was additionally within the mosque on the time, adopted the Good Samarithans that rushed him to the hospital and was current when the physician pronounced him lifeless.
His stays have been buried at about 10:12am on Thursday in accordance with Islamic rites.
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