NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Ugandan athlete dwelling in Kenya was attacked and set on fireplace by her boyfriend and is receiving remedy for burns on 75% of her physique, police mentioned.
Rebecca Cheptegei, a distance runner who completed forty fourth within the marathon on 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 remedy on the Moi Instructing and Referral Hospital in Eldoret metropolis.
Cheptegei’s mother and father mentioned their daughter purchased land in Trans Nzoia to be close to the county’s many athletic coaching facilities.
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 lifeless with stab wounds. In 2022, Kenyan-born Bahraini athlete Damaris Muthee was discovered lifeless with a postmortem report stating that she was strangled.
