Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, who competed in the marathon at the last Paris Olympics, has died in a Kenyan hospital where she was admitted after being doused with petrol and set on fire, apparently by her boyfriend, the newspaper reported on Thursday. medical centre.
“Unfortunately, we lost her after all her organs failed last night,” said Owen Menach, acting director of Moi University and Eldoret Referral Hospital in western Kenya.
The brutal episode of gender-based violence occurred last Sunday in the Kenyan county of Trans Nzoia (west), from where the 33-year-old athlete was rushed to the aforementioned hospital with burns on 80% of her body.
