British boxer Anthony Joshua was hurt in a traffic accident in Nigeria on Monday in which two people were killed, according to police.
Joshua, a former two-time heavyweight champion, “has been taken to the hospital and he’s responding to treatment,” a spokesman for the Ogun State police command said by phone. A separate statement from the nation’s road safety agency said he had sustained minor injuries.
Posts on X show Joshua being helped out of a damaged vehicle from what appeared to be one of the passenger seats.
The Lexus SUV conveying Joshua was “suspected to traveling beyond the legally prescribed speed limit on the corridor,” the road safety agency said in a statement.
The vehicle “lost control during an overtaking manoeuvre and crashed into a stationary truck” that was parked on the roadside, it added.
The boxer has family roots in Nigeria, according to the BBC.
The accident comes after Joshua defeated social-media-star-turned-boxer Jake Paul earlier this month in a bout in Miami that was streamed live on Netflix to an audience of 33 million.
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