Thousands paid tribute to Rebecca Cheptegei on Saturday in a funeral where she was honor with full military honors following her death last week from injuries suffered in a gasoline attack. The ceremony took place in Bukwo in, a remote town in Uganda's northeast near the Kenyan border. Cheptegei was seriously injured in on September …
The ex-boyfriend accused of killing Rebecca Cheptegei in a fiery gasoline attack died on Monday from burns he sustained in the same fire. Dickson Ndiema, 32, died late Monday night at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, the same medical facility in Eldoret city in Kenya where Cheptegei was being treated. Cheptegei died from multiple organ …
Rebecca Cheptegei has died at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated for burns on over 80 percent of her body after she was set on fire in a gasoline attack on Sunday. The death of the 33-year-old Cheptegei was confirmed on Thursday. She was listed in serious condition at the Moi Teaching and …
Rebecca Cheptegi, who competed for Uganda in the Paris Olympics, is in critical condition in a Kenyan hospital after suffering burns after a man poured gasoline on her and set her on fire on Sunday, according to police. Cheptegi, 33, suffered burns to 80 percent of her body and was rushed to the Moi Teaching …