The former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou is involved in a fatal traffic accident. He performed on Sunday near Yaoundé, the capital of his native country, Cameroon. According to local media, the 38 -year -old man has lost control of his motorcycle and struck a 17 -year -old girl.
Despite an emergency operation in the hospital, the teenager died of her serious injuries. Francis Ngannou brought the victim himself to the clinic and would have covered all treatment costs. For the time being, the fighter has made no public statement, but he would be devastated.
This is not the first blow of fate in the life of Cameroonians. Last year, he lost his son Kobe, only 15 months old. The cause of the death was not clear at the start, but it turned out later that the child suffered from an unmatched cerebral malformation.
“He has lost consciousness twice. The first in Cameroon, where we took him to the hospital. doctors have found nothing. The second in Saudi Arabia, we also took him to the hospital. They did an EEG, but not to scan or MRI because they concluded that he had a swollen lung. He pressed his rib cage and prevented him from breathing, and that is what caused the problem, “he said, at the time, describing the weeks preceding the death of his son.
Francis Ngannou had confidence in the fact that the doctors had correctly identified his son’s problems and that he was going to recover. Subsequently, he had left his native country, Cameroon, to go to Dubai, where he trained at the time. Arrived in Dubai, he received a call from his little brother who announced that Kobe was “in the emergency room because he had stopped breathing”. A few minutes later, the one -year -old child died.
Francis Ngannou was born in the Cameroonian city of Batié. From the age of ten, he began working as a sand to help his family financially. At 22, he fled through the Sahara, crossed the Mediterranean and arrived in France to realize his childhood dream: to become a boxer.
