A BRITISH holidaymaker has died at Lanzarote Airport just minutes after arriving on a plane from the UK.
The man is said to have collapsed in the queue to the passport control area less than half an hour after leaving the Jet2 plane he had reached the island on.
The aircraft is understood to have touched down at 2.26pm on Thursday, with the alarm raised just 22 minutes later at 2.48pm.
Emergency responders rushed to Terminal One but were unable to save him.
He was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 3pm local time.
Civil Guard sources confirmed the tourist was British and said the incident is not being treated as suspicious.
Well-placed sources said he had died of natural causes, with local reports pointing to a suspected heart attack.
It is not immediately clear how old the man was or whether he had be travelling alone.
He reportedly collapsed in a shaded holding area where passengers are funnelled before reaching passport booths manned by police officers.
Sources ruled out any obvious link between the tragedy and the long queues British holidaymakers report when passing through passport control.
Thursdays are typically the busiest day for arrivals from the UK, with a high volume of flights landing on the island.
More than 700,000 passengers passed through Lanzarote Airport in the first month of this year alone.
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