Port-of-Spain: An elderly woman collapsed and died while Christmas shopping in downtown Port-of-Spain today.
The incident occured around midday today along Queen Street at Fabric Land.
Police officers from the Central Police Station on foot patrol responded and cordoned off the area.
Shoppers say the woman, identified as 79 year-old Dorris Sookhoo, was inside the cloth store shopping for curtains in time for the Christmas holidays, when she began clutching her chest and complained of feeling unwell.
Shoppers and customer service repesentatives in the store attempted to place the 79 year-old woman on a chair but while doing so, she collapsed and died.
It is beleived she died of heart failure.
Sookhoo's relatives were informed and identified her body before it was removed to the Port-of-Spain mortuary.
Business at the store resumed later in the day.
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