I saw Rebecca Cheptegei running towards me on fire after attack, neighbour tells BBC

Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei died after her former partner allegedly set her on fire.

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"I was in the house and heard people screaming 'fire'," Agnes Barabara, the immediate neighbour of Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei, tearfully recalls.

"When I came out, I saw Rebecca running towards my house on fire, shouting: help me."

Outside the house in north-west Kenya where the 33-year-old athlete lived, flowers have been placed on grass that was charred as she rolled on the ground to put out the flames engulfing her.

Ms Cheptegei died on Thursday from injuries sustained when her former partner allegedly doused her with petrol and set her ablaze days earlier while at home with her two daughters.

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