Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei dies

Kenya based Ugandan athlete Rebbecca Cheptegei has passed on at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret where she was undergoing medication following an attack from her estranged Kenyan lover on Sunday in Endebes Trans Nzoia county. Cheptegei was admitted at the referral facility with eighty percent burns and immediately placed in the intensive care unit but succumbed Thursday morning due to multiple organ failure. The family of the late athlete is accusing police of failing to protect their kin despite having reported that she feared for her life.