A Ugandan athlete residing in Kenya was set ablaze by her boyfriend and is at the moment receiving therapy for 75 per cent burns, police mentioned.
Rebecca Cheptegei, a distance runner who completed on the forty fourth place within the 2024 Paris Olympics, was attacked in her home 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 set her ablaze throughout a disagreement Sunday.
Ndiema additionally sustained burn wounds, and the 2 are receiving specialised therapy on the Moi Instructing and Referral Hospital in Eldoret metropolis.
Cheptegei’s dad and mom mentioned their daughter purchased land in Trans Nzoia to be close to the county’s many athletic coaching centres.
A report filed by the native chief states that the couple was heard preventing over the land the place the home was constructed earlier than the fireplace began.
In 2023, Ugandan Olympic runner and steeplechaser Benjamin Kiplagat was discovered useless with stab wounds.
In 2022, Kenyan-born Bahraini athlete Damaris Muthee was discovered useless with a postmortem report stating that she was strangled.