Get the latest gossip

Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei dies after being set on fire by her former boyfriend

Marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, was doused in petrol after returning home from church.

Cheptegei, from a region just across the border in Uganda, is said to have bought a plot in Trans Nzoia county and built a house to be near Kenya's elite athletics training centres. "We join the UN Population Fund and UN Women in strongly condemning [Cheptegei's} violent murder," spokesperson for the UN secretary-general Stephane Dujarric is quoted by the AFP news agency as saying. Her death comes after the killings of fellow East African athletes Agnes Tirop in 2021 and Damaris Mutua the following year, with their partners identified as the main suspects in both cases by the authorities.

Get the Android app