LAGOS, Nigeria (AFP)—Former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital, state officials said Wednesday, days after a fatal car accident that killed two of his close friends in Nigeria.

Joshua was travelling on Monday with friends Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele on a busy highway linking Lagos and Ibadan in the southwest of the country when their SUV rammed into a stationary truck.

The Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE) in Ogun state, where the accident occurred, said preliminary investigations showed the vehicle had burst a tyre before crashing into the truck.

“Anthony Joshua was discharged from hospital late this afternoon. Though heavy hearted and full of emotion over the loss of his two close friends, he was deemed clinically fit to recuperate at home,” Lagos state government spokesman Gbenga Omotoso and his Ogun state counterpart Kayode Akinmade said in a joint statement late on Wednesday night.

Both state governments have been overseeing the boxer’s treatment since the crash on Monday.

After leaving the hospital, the former heavyweight champion visited the funeral home where the bodies of his friends were “being prepared for repatriation”.