A 58-year-old man died on Sunday morning, shorty after he was rescued from a lodging in Nyandarua where he had fallen ill.

According to police reports, Edith Wairimu, an employee of Heshima Lodge, Ol-Kalau town found the man breathing heavily in one of the rooms and immediately alerted the police.

“One Edith Wairimu, an employee of Heshima Lodge Ol-Kalau town that she went to Room no 24 which was open to clean and she found the man,” read the report in parts

Police from Ol-Kalau Police Station accompanied by detectives from the Directive of Criminal Investigations (DCI) went to the scene where they managed to take the man to a hospital.

The body was taken to mortuary as it awaits a postmortem.