Man dies during an intense 4th of July hot-dog eating competition.

47-year-old Walter Eagle Tail of Custer, South Dakota, lost consciousness as he took part in the contest.

He was later pronounced dead at a local hospital despite the efforts of responding paramedics and the police.

County Sheriff Rick Wheeler said There was someone doing CPR when we arrived.’ ‘He probably just suffocated. It got lodged in his throat and they couldn’t get it out.’

Hot dog eating competitions are now an american nationwide tradition during the fourth of July celebrations.

Only one day after Eagle tail died, Joey ‘Jaws’ Chestnutt ate 61 hot-dogs in 10 minutes during a competition in Brooklyn.