Trinidad and To­ba­go box­ing queen, Giselle Sa­landy, died ear­ly this morn­ing fol­low­ing a ma­jor ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent. The car in which Sa­landy was trav­el­ling hit a pil­lar on the of the fly­over on the Beetham High­way on the out­skirts of Port of Spain.

The young fe­male box­er, who would have turned 22 lat­er this month, suc­cumbed to her in­juries at the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal at around 8.29 a.m.

The oth­er oc­cu­pant of the ve­hi­cle, na­tion­al women's foot­baller Tama­ra Wat­son, is re­port­ed to be un­der­go­ing emer­gency surgery af­ter suf­fer­ing two bro­ken legs. She was al­so list­ed as be­ing in crit­i­cal con­di­tion.

At a press con­fer­ence this morn­ing, Min­is­ter of Sport Gary Hunt promised that the gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go will foot the bill for the box­er's fu­ner­al.

Sa­landy re­tires un­beat­en with a record of 17-0, with six knock­outs. At the time of her death, she held eight ti­tles, in­clud­ing the WBC, WBA and WI­BA belts.