Women's World Boxing Champ Dies |
Women's world boxing champion Jizelle Salandy has died following a vehicular accident on the January 4. The 21-year-old passed away at the Port of Spain General Hospital after the car she was driving crashed into a concrete pillar. She had been rushed to the hospital after the collision which caused massive head and internal injuries, but died while undergoing emergency surgery. Tammie Watson, a Trinidad and Tobago national woman footballer who was a passenger in the car, was also hospitalised.The accident came just three days after Olympic bronze medalist Richard Thompson and another member of the Trinidad Olympic team were injured in a car accident. The country's Sports Minister Gary Hunt described young Salandy as an "icon" and had been a "tremendous and great motivator to the young people in Trinidad and Tobago". Source: caribbean360.com
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