Around 3 a.m., Mutombo posted that he was in the Brussels Airport “with this craziness”, but that he was unhurt.
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Former NBA star and Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo was among those at the airport in Brussels on Tuesday during the morning’s attacks. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks, claiming in a post from the group’s Amaq news agency that its extremists opened fire in the airport and “several of them” detonated suicide belts.
On Monday, Dikembe was back home in the Congo to speak at the Saving Lives Through the Prevention and Treatment of Cervical Cancer Conference, via his Foundation’s Facebook page.
The 49-year-old Mutombo was an eight-time NBA All-Star during his 19-year career that ended in 2009.
Mutombo revealed his brush with tragedy on Facebook.
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Bombs exploded Tuesday at the Brussels airport and in the city’s subway, killing more than two dozen people and wounding dozens, as a European capital was again locked down amid heightened security threats. Mutombo was inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame previous year. The Paris attacks killed 130 people and injured more than 300 others.
