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Exterior the home the place Rebecca Cheptegei lived, flowers have been positioned on grass that was charred because the runner rolled on the bottom to attempt to put out flames engulfing her.
The 33-year-old Olympic runner died on Thursday from accidents sustained when her former accomplice allegedly doused her with petrol and set her ablaze days earlier whereas at residence along with her two daughters.
“I used to be in the home and heard folks screaming, ‘fireplace’. After I got here out, I noticed Rebecca operating in direction of my home on fireplace, shouting ‘assist me,” Agnes Barabara, Ms Cheptegei’s instant neighbour, tearfully instructed the BBC.
“As I went to search for water and began calling out for assist, her assailant appeared once more and doused extra petrol on her, however then he too acquired burned and he ran off in direction of the backyard to attempt to put it out. We then went to assist Rebecca.”
“I’ve by no means seen anybody burn alive in my life. I didn’t eat for days after that incident.”
“She was an excellent neighbour and only in the near past she shared with me maize she’d harvested.”
Police are treating the loss of life as a homicide, along with her ex-partner named by police as the principle suspect. Native directors stated the 2 had been in battle concerning the small piece of land the place Ms Cheptegei lived, with the case awaiting decision.
He shall be arraigned in courtroom on prices as soon as he’s out of hospital, the place he continues to recuperate from accidents he sustained throughout the incident.
“We have now opened a file, investigations are at a complicated stage,” divisional legal investigations officer Kennedy Apindi instructed the BBC.