British boxer of Nigerian origin Anthony Joshua has been discharged from the hospital after being injured last Monday in a traffic accident that caused the death of two members of his team and friends in southwestern Nigeria, in Ogun State, Nigerian authorities reported.

“Anthony Joshua was discharged late in the Wednesday afternoon. Although heartbroken and deeply moved by the loss of his two close friends, he was deemed clinically fit to recover at home,” Lagos State Information Commissioner Gbenga Omotoso said early Thursday morning via the X social network. Joshua and his mother went to the Lagos funeral home to pay their last respects to the bodies of the two deceased before their repatriation, Omotoso explained. The accident occurred last Monday on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway (which connects Ogun and Lagos) when the SUV in which the boxer was traveling crashed into a parked truck, as confirmed to EFE at the time by Ogun Federal Highway Safety Corps (FRSC) spokesman Afolabi Odunsi. Witnesses to the accident told the local newspaper The Punch that Joshua was traveling as a passenger in a Lexus, accompanied by another person in the back seat, while the driver and a passenger died. crashing into a parked vehicle. His security team was driving behind the car before the impact.

Joshua, 36, has been in Nigeria following his fight with YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul on December 19, which Joshua won by knockout in the sixth round.

The heavyweight returned to the ring after a 15-month hiatus and is expected to fight his old rival, Tyson Fury, next year.

Joshua is the son of a British father and a Nigerian mother, and lived in the African country until he was 12, when he moved with his family to the UK.

Although he excelled at athletics and American football, Joshua took up boxing at the age of 18.

Four years later,He would cease to be an amateur after winning gold at the 2012 London Olympic Games in the over-91 kg category. Since then, Joshua has had a professional career of 32 fights, with 29 wins—26 by knockout and three by decision—and only four losses, two by knockout and two by decision.