Ugandan Olympic Athlete Rebecca Cheptegei Dies After Being Set on Fire by Boyfriend

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Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated after 80% of her body was burned in an attack by her partner. She was 33.

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00:00I want to ask for help.

00:09I want to know what happened to the woman who killed my daughter.

00:23I don't want to see her.

00:26I don't want to see anything that will affect the government.

00:32I want to see her.

00:34Even now, she was ready to go or do anything.

00:41I am ready to lose the child I was planning to have.

00:46There is no hope.

00:49There is no hope.

00:51I don't want to see anything that will affect the government.

00:55I don't want to see anything that will affect the child I was planning to have.

01:03There is no hope.

01:22The severe burns led to multi-organ failure.

01:27We had kidney failure.

01:29We had cardiovascular failure.

01:33Most of our systems actually failed following the burns.

01:38We supported the organs as best as we could.

01:42Unfortunately, it was beyond what we could do.

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