Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, had sustained burns to 80 per cent of her body.
Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died after being set on fire allegedly by her boyfriend in Kenya, Uganda’s Olympic Committee chief said.
Cheptegei, 33, had sustained burns to 80 per cent of her body on Sunday, the acting head of the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in the Rift Valley city of Eldorect where she was being treated, had told reporters.Credit:Police had said a man named as Dickson Ndiema Marangach, identified as her partner, had allegedly doused Cheptegei with petrol and set her alight on Sunday at her home in Endebess in the western county of Trans-Nzoia.
The assault comes two years after Kenyan-born athlete Damaris Mutua was found dead in Iten, a world-famous running hub in the Rift Valley.
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