Kenyan media had reported that one of Cheptegei’s daughters witnessed the assault at her mother’s home.
UGANDA N OLYMPIC ATHLETE Rebecca Cheptegei has died after being set on fire by her boyfriend in Kenya, Uganda ’s Olympic Committee chief said today.
Cheptegei, 33, had sustained burns to 80 percent of her body, 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 on Tuesday.Advertisement Police had said a man named as Dickson Ndiema Marangach, identified as her partner, had allegedly doused Cheptegei with petrol and set her alight in an attack on Sunday at her home in Endebess in the western county of Trans-Nzoia.
“He kicked me while I tried to run to the rescue of my mother,” Kenya’s The Standard reported her as saying.
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