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Two foreign nationals were killed in a car crash involving Anthony Joshua in Nigeria – as footage shows how the boxing star came within inches of death.
The boxing champion, 36, was on his way to see family when the Lexus SUV he was travelling in the back of smashed into a stationary truck shortly after 11am today on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Makun.
Five people were involved in the collision, with photos revealing how the vehicle was completely destroyed, with the car’s doors ripped out and the roof smashed out of place.
Footage posted online earlier show the former heavyweight world champion shirtless and looking dazed as he sat in the wrecked vehicle among shattered glass.
Two of the three people who were in the Lexus alongside Joshua died, the boxer miraculously cheated death and was later seen in the front seat of an emergency vehicle speaking to officials.
The Ogun State Government confirmed the two fatalities were ‘foreign nationals’. ‘Preliminary reports indicate that two male foreign nationals died on the spot,’ they said. ‘Their remains have since been deposited at the Livewell Morgue in Sagamu.’
It is understood that Joshua was seated behind the driver, along with another passenger, when the crash occurred. His security detail followed behind the Lexus.
Local police are investigating the incident, but conflicting reports on how the crash happened have emerged from official sources.
The Federal Road Safety Corps said the SUV is believed to have been travelling ‘beyond the legally prescribed speed limit’ and lost control while making ‘an overtaking manoeuvre’, before crashing into a truck parked on the side of the road.
But Ogun State Police Commissioner Lanre Ogunlowo told ESPN: ‘The accident happened as a result of a burst tire on AJ’s vehicle, which caused the driver to lose control and the vehicle to swerve into the stationary truck parked along the road’.
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