The previous associate of Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, who had been accused of killing her by dousing her in petrol and setting her on fireplace, has died from burns sustained in the course of the assault, the Kenyan hospital the place he was being handled stated on Tuesday.
Cheptegei, 33, who competed within the marathon on the Paris Olympics, suffered burns to greater than 75% of her physique within the 1 September assault and died 4 days later.
Her former boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema Marangach, died at 7.50pm native time on Monday, stated Daniel Lang’at, a spokesperson at Moi Instructing and Referral Hospital in Eldoret in western Kenya, the place Cheptegei was additionally handled and died. “He died from his injuries, the burns he sustained,” Lang’at advised Reuters.
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Cheptegei, who completed forty fourth in Paris, is the third elite sportswoman to be killed in Kenya since October 2021. Her demise has put the highlight on home violence within the East African nation, significantly inside its operating neighborhood.
Rights teams say feminine athletes in Kenya are at a excessive threat of exploitation and violence by the hands of males drawn to their prize cash, which far exceeds native incomes.
Practically 34% of Kenyan women and girls aged 15-49 years have suffered bodily violence, in keeping with authorities knowledge from 2022, with married girls at explicit threat. The 2022 survey discovered that 41% of married girls had confronted violence.
Globally, a girl is killed by somebody in her family each 11 minutes, in keeping with a 2023 UN Girls research.
