A month after the tragic death of Cameroonian striker of JS Kabylie Albert Ebossé in Algeria, another Cameroonian player lost his life during the weekend in Tunisia, where he went for trials, local police said.
Essomba Onana of Renaissance de Ngoumou, a Cameroonian top division outfit, was knocked down by a car while walking to his hotel after a football match in the El Aouina district of Tunisian capital Tunis on Saturday, a report said.
According to Cameroonian Thierry Makon Nloga of Esperance Tunis, Onana chose to return to his hotel by foot after a local football match between Ivorian and Cameroonian players in Tunis and while trekking along a street path a car swerved onto the walkway at high speed and ran into the player, killing him on the spot.
Onana had spent just three weeks in the North African country undergoing trials at a couple of clubs.
He was in the company of another Cameroonian footballer Bokoa of AS Etoa Meki Yaounde, a division two club in Cameroon, who was seriously injured in the accident and currently receiving treatments at a hospital in Tunis while the body of Onana has been sent to a mortuary, Nloga said.
The municipal police said they have opened investigations.
