The man who inspired Tom Hanks film The Terminal has died at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, where he lived for 18 years.
Iranian national Mehran Karimi Nasseri had a heart attack in Terminal 2F on Saturday, according to an official with the Paris airport authority.
Emergency services were called to help Mr Karimi Nasseri but could not save him.
He lived in Terminal 1 of the airport from 1988 until 2006, initially in legal limbo because he did not have residency papers.
But he later remained at the airport by choice, according to French media reports.
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An official said he was living in the airport again in recent weeks.
His story inspired the 2004 film starring Tom Hanks, who plays Viktor Navorski, a man trapped at JFK airport in New York after being denied entry to the US – but unable to return to his homeland, the fictional eastern European state of Krakozhia, due to a military coup.
Read more: Sky News
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