Five children orphaned as parents die from cancer just weeks apart
Five children have been orphaned after their father died from cancer - just weeks after they lost their mother to the same disease.
Omena Ubiaro died from bowel cancer in the early hours of Monday in a Wolverhampton hospice, while his wife Makeda passed away on July 29.
In a heartbreaking video posted online from his hospital bed just days before his death, Mr Ubiaro said cancer was the "toughest thing" he had ever had to face.
He said: "Myself and my five boys, we just lost my wife, they've lost a mother and I've also lost a best friend as well... It has been difficult for the boys, it has been difficult for myself.
"I know a lot of the time people say 'be strong', but sometimes it's tough because I'm thinking 'where do I find that strength from, that extra strength to be strong?'.
"I cannot lie, it has been the toughest thing that a husband and a father has ever had to face or deal with."
Family friend Charles Busari, of Tipton, set up an online fundraising page, initially to help raise money for Mrs Ubiaro's funeral while her husband was bedridden in hospital.
Click here to see the GoFundMe page
The donations - which so far total more than £36,000 - will now be used to support the five boys in the future.
Breaking the news of Mr Ubiaro's death on the website, Mr Busari wrote: "It breaks my heart to report that sadly our dear brother Omena has lost his fight to cancer.
"Unfortunately our worst fears have been confirmed and we now need your donations more than ever to support the children."
Paying tribute to the couple, of Birmingham, one well-wisher replied: "So sad reading through this. Makes you think how lucky we are at times in life. Life is too short."
Another added: "You showed the world what love was until the very end."
