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Ugandan Olympic athlete set on ***** by her boyfriend, police say – National

By Evelyne Musambi

The Associated Press

Posted September 3, 2024 3:45 pm

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A Ugandan athlete living in Kenya was attacked and set on ***** by her boyfriend and is receiving treatment for burns on 75 per cent of her body, police said.

Rebecca Cheptegei, a distance runner who finished at the 44th position in the 2024 Paris Olympics, was attacked in her house in the western Trans Nzoia County.

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Trans Nzoia County Police Commander Jeremiah ole Kosiom said Monday that Cheptegei’s boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema, bought a jerrycan of gasoline, 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.

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

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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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