In short:
Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital after a crash that killed two of his friends.
Nigerian authorities said the 36-year-old was deemed fit to recuperate at home.
What’s next?
The bodies of Joshua’s friends, Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele, will be repatriated to Britain.
British former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital days after a car accident in Nigeria that killed two of his close friends.
The 36-year-old was deemed clinically fit to recuperate at home, the Ogun and Lagos states said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
Joshua suffered minor injuries when the Lexus SUV he was a passenger in collided with a stationary truck on a major expressway on Monday, local time.
His team members, Sina Ghami and Latif “Latz” Ayodele, were killed.
Ghami, a sport and exercise rehabilitation coach, had worked with Joshua for more than a decade.
After leaving hospital on Wednesday, Joshua and his mother visited the funeral home where his friends’ bodies were being held ahead of repatriation, the statement said.
Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Corps said preliminary findings suggested the Lexus was travelling over the speed limit when the driver lost control during a “wrongful overtaking” manoeuvre.
A spokesperson for the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency in Ogun told Agence France-Presse the front tyre on the car’s passenger side burst while overtaking.
“That led to loss of control before the vehicle … swerved and rammed into the stationary truck that was parked,” he said.
Joshua had been on holiday in Nigeria for just over a week after knocking out American social media star Jake Paul in the sixth round of a fight in Miami, Florida.
Paul expressed his condolences in social media posts on Monday.
“Life is much more important than boxing,” he wrote in one post on X.
“I am praying for the lives lost, AJ and anyone impacted by today’s unfortunate accident.”
Source: abc.net.au
