…As Auto crash claims 2, injures 4 others in Kano State***

A British man has died after he allegedly fell 50ft from a ledge at a Turkish airport, with witnesses alleging he said he ‘wanted it to end.’

Andrew Westlake, 30, died after being rushed to hospital from Dalaman airport in south-west Turkey.

It is believed that he had waited three days for a flight home after ‘losing his ticket’, and earlier reports had wrongly suggested he had plunged 15ft out of an aircraft door.

Mr. Westlake’s relatives have revealed that he was on his first family holiday with his partner and one-year-old daughter.

One eyewitness explained that the incident happened inside the terminal at 3.30am on Tuesday and they tried to help him after he crashed into a glass barrier, only for him to ‘jump over a balcony.’

“My partner watched him stand back up and he backed away from the barrier and then just ran for it and hopped over straight down onto the floor below,” an eyewitness was quoted as saying.

“When my partner helped him up he looked so sad and lost. The image that my partner still has in his head is the man looking so desperate.”

The incident occurred after Mr. Westlake reportedly spent three days waiting for a flight home after losing his ticket.

Mr. Westlake’s Facebook profile reveals that he formerly worked at glass manufacturer Clayton Glass, while pictures show him smiling and holding a young baby.

Local media reports that he argued with cabin crew after boarding the flight at 3pm, and he was earlier ordered off after posing a risk to flight safety.

In 2013, he was jailed for terrorising his own family, with a court hearing of Westlake’s ‘history of alcohol abuse.’

When police arrived to the scene of the 2013 offence, they found Westlake lying on the kitchen floor having stabbed himself twice in the stomach.

A Foreign Office spokeswoman confirmed: “We are supporting the family of a British man following his death in Turkey and are in touch with the local authorities.”

In the meantime, two people died on Tuesday evening while four others sustained injuries when two vehicles collided on Kano-Gwarzo road, an official of Kano State Fire Service said on Wednesday.

Alhaji Saidu Mohammed,  spokesman of the fire service told the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) in Kano that the accident occurred at about 05:35pm.

“We received a distress call from one Malam Wada Alhassan at about 05:35pm that there was an accident on Gwarzo Road.

“On receiving the information, we quickly dispatched our personnel and vehicle to the scene of the incident at about 05:41pm to rescue the victims,” Mohammed said.

He said two vehicles, a Truck, with registration number XF 375 FG and a Golf car with registration number KZR 421 ZT, from opposite direction, had collided.

Mohammed attributed the accident, which involved six persons, to speed limit violation which led to loss of control by the drivers.

He said the fire personnel took the victims to the Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital, Kano where the doctor on duty confirmed two dead while the remaining four victims were receiving treatment.

He appealed to motorists to obey traffic regulations so as to stay alive and minimise accidents on the road.

Additional report from Punch