Rebecca Cheptegei was set alight and later died after Dickson Ndiema ambushed her near her home.
The former boyfriend of Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, who killed her by setting her on fire, has himself died from burns sustained in the attack, a Kenyan hospital official has said.
Local administrators said the two had been in conflict over a small piece of land in north-west Kenya, where Cheptegei lived and trained. "It's true he has died from the injuries," Dr Owen Menach from Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in the town of Eldoret told the BBC.Ndiema was to face charges as police said they were treating Cheptegei's death as murder, with the former boyfriend named as the main suspect.The 33-year-old Olympian was the third athlete to be killed in Kenya in the last three years, where intimate partners were named as the main suspects by police.
Cheptegei was born on the Kenyan side of the Kenya-Uganda border, but chose to cross over and represent Uganda to chase her athletics dream when she did not get a breakthrough in Kenya.
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