By Nimi Princewill, NCS
(NCS) — Former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua suffered bruises in a car crash that resulted in the deaths of two people on Monday, based on native police in Ogun State, Nigeria.
The incident occurred round 11 a.m. (5 a.m ET) on a busy stretch of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, which connects Ogun to the industrial middle of Lagos, police reported.
“Anthony Joshua is well and responding to treatment,” Babaseyi Boluwatife, a spokesperson for the Ogun State Police Command, informed NCS.
Joshua, who has household ties in Ogun, sustained solely “minor bruises,” however Boluwatife stated two different occupants in the automobile with him, together with the driving force, had been killed. Police didn’t determine the opposite people concerned.
A video exhibiting Joshua being rescued from the wreckage has been circulating on social media. The boxer, born to Nigerian dad and mom in Watford, close to London, has stayed linked to his roots.
Joshua couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
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