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

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Rebecca Cheptegei , 33 , died on Thursday from injuries sustained when her former partner allegedly doused her with petrol and set her ablaze days earlier .

Police are treating the death as a murder, with her ex-partner named by police as the main suspect.

She was born on the Kenyan side of the Kenya -Uganda border, but chose to cross over to Uganda to chase her athletics dream.

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informal

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English

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42

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short-lived

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