Man dies after being found slumped in car outside Melksham store
A pensioner has died after suffering a suspected heart attack in a car parked outside a Melksham department store.
Wiltshire Air Ambulance was called to help out with the incident in the car park at Leekes in Beanacre Road yesterday.
Passers-by alerted the emergency services after seeing the man, believed to be in his 80s, slumped in a car.
The helicopter landed in a field just after 11am and took the man to the Royal United Hospital in Bath where he later died.
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