Former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond died while trying to help a
colleague open a bottle of ketchup, eyewitnesses have claimed. The
former SNP leader and Alba Party founder died suddenly in North
Macedonia on Saturday, at the age of 69.Mr Salmond, who was Scotland’s
first minister from 2007 until 2014, had made a speech at the Institute
for Cultural Diplomacy Forum in the city of Ohrid before collapsing at
lunch in a crowded room.Mark Donfried, director of the Institute for
Cultural Diplomacy, said Mr Salmond had been helping Alba Party Tasmina
Ahmed-Sheikh open a bottle of ketchup, when he collapsed. Mr Donfried
told Times Radio: “Later on Tasmina told me she was having trouble
opening the ketchup and she reached over and said, ‘Hey, can you give me
a hand?’ “And he was helping her with that when literally he fell back
in his chair, totally out of the blue, without warning.
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