Joshua’s household hails from the southwest Nigeria and he’s recognized to go to there when he’s within the nation. Photograph: AFP/File
LAGOS:
Former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital, state officers stated Wednesday, after surviving a deadly automotive accident in Nigeria that killed two of his shut buddies.
Joshua was travelling on Monday with buddies Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele on a busy freeway linking Lagos and Ibadan within the southwest of the nation when their SUV rammed right into a stationary truck.
The Visitors Compliance and Enforcement Company (TRACE) in Ogun state, the place the accident occurred, stated preliminary investigations confirmed the car was shifting at extreme velocity and had burst a tyre earlier than the crash.
“Anthony Joshua was discharged from hospital late this afternoon” Lagos and Ogun state governments spokesmen stated in a joint assertion late Wednesday night time.
“Although heavy hearted and stuffed with emotion over the lack of his two shut buddies, he was deemed clinically match to recuperate at dwelling,” Lagos state’s spokesman Gbenga Omotoso and his Ogun counterpart Kayode Akinmade stated.
Each state governments have been overseeing the boxer’s therapy for the reason that crash on Monday.
After leaving the hospital, the previous heavyweight champion and his mom paid their respects on the funeral dwelling the place the our bodies of his buddies have been “being ready for repatriation”, the assertion stated.
Nigerian police stated the 2 victims died on the scene.
Joshua, 36, was admitted at Lagos’s Lagoon Hospital, the assertion stated, contradicting earlier info by a TRACE official who gave the title of a distinct hospital.
Joshua’s household hails from the southwest Nigerian metropolis and he’s recognized to go to there when he’s within the nation.
Lagos, Nigeria’s bustling financial capital, throngs with guests from throughout the nation and diaspora every December.
Images launched by the police confirmed a mangled wreckage of a black sports activities utility car.
In December, Joshua knocked out YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in a Netflix-backed bout in Miami.
The previous Olympic champion Joshua has since been linked with a battle in opposition to compatriot and fellow former world champion Tyson Fury.
Joshua’s final battle earlier than the match with Paul was a fifth spherical knockout loss to fellow Briton Daniel Dubois in September 2024.
