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Only two days after Céline Dion’s husband, René Angélil, died, the singer lost her brother Daniel to the same type of cancer.

Dion, 47, lost her husband to throat cancer on Thursday after he revealed in 2014 it had returned following two previous bouts.

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Daniel, 59, died Saturday morning after a long battle against cancer, a publicist for Dion said in a press release.

The eighth of 14 Dion children and a father of two daughters, age 32 and 25, he died at 5 a.m. at the Maison Adhémar-Dion, a palliative-care residence outside Montreal.

A viewing will take place next Saturday, the day after Angélil’s funeral.

Impresario Barry Garber, a longtime friend of Dion and Angélil, said the second tragedy must be a devastating blow for the singer.

“My heart goes out to her,” Garber said, noting the family is still in shock over the loss of Angélil.

“Bad enough to lose her husband, but it’s unfair that anyone has to go through the same thing twice in two days,” he said.