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The man is said to have booked the room together with a 22-year-old girl on Thursday 4pm.

Police in Nairobi are investigating an incident in which a 71-year-old man died in a lodging in Parklands. 

The man is said to have booked the room together with a 22-year-old girl on Thursday 4pm.

He however began complaining two hours later of chest and back pains.

The matter escalated and he began gasping for air in the room.

It is then that the woman walked downstairs and called a taxi to help save the man's life.

The taxi driver with the help of the woman rushed to the room and pick him in bid to save her life.

They rushed the man to the Aga Khan hospital using his car.

On arrival to the Agha Khan Hospital, the man was pronounced dead.

It is not clear yet what could have caused the man's death.

Police are probing the incident as they also await autopsy report. 

Cases of elderly men dying in a lodging while in love making session in Nairobi have been on the rise.

Police have cited the use of drugs that stimulate sexual desires as one of the cause of such deaths especially when used in excesses.