A Ugandan athlete dwelling in Kenya was once attacked and poised on hearth by way of her boyfriend and is receiving remedy for burns on 75% of her frame, police mentioned.
Rebecca Cheptegei, a distance runner who completed on the forty fourth place within the 2024 Paris Olympics, was once attacked in her space within the western Trans Nzoia County.
Trans Nzoia County Police Commander Jeremiah ole Kosiom mentioned Monday that Cheptegei’s boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema, purchased a jerrican of petrol, poured it on her and poised her ablaze right through a war of words Sunday.
Ndiema additionally sustained burn wounds, and the 2 are receiving specialised remedy on the Moi Educating and Referral Health facility in Eldoret town.
Cheptegei’s oldsters mentioned their daughter purchased land in Trans Nzoia to be alike the county’s many athletic coaching facilities.
A record filed by way of the native leading states that the couple was once heard combating over the land the place the home was once constructed sooner than the fireplace began.
In 2023, Ugandan Olympic runner and steeplechaser Benjamin Kiplagat was once discovered lifeless with stab wounds.
In 2022, Kenyan-born Bahraini athlete Damaris Muthee was once discovered lifeless, with a postmortem record pointing out that she was once strangled.
