Just returned from the Olympics, a Ugandan athlete is set on fire by her boyfriend

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Just returned from the Olympics, a Ugandan athlete is set on ***** by her boyfriend

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Ugandan athlete living in Kenya was set ablaze by her boyfriend and is currently receiving treatment for 75% burns, police said.

Rebecca Cheptegei, a distance runner who finished at the 44th position in the

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, was attacked in her house in the western Trans Nzoia County.

Trans Nzoia County Police Commander Jeremiah ole Kosiom said Monday that Cheptegei’s boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema, bought a jerrican of petrol, poured it on her and set her ablaze during a disagreement Sunday. Ndiema also sustained ***** wounds, and the two are receiving specialized treatment at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret city.

Cheptegei’s parents said their daughter bought land in Trans Nzoia to be near the county’s many athletic training centers.

A report filed by the local chief states that the couple was heard fighting over the land where the house was built before the ***** started.

In 2023, Ugandan Olympic runner and steeplechaser

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. In 2022, Kenyan-born Bahraini athlete Damaris Muthee was found ***** with a postmortem report stating that she was strangled.

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