Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei has died after she was set on fire in a horrific “domestic” attack, it was announced on Thursday.The Ugandan athlete and mother-of-two, 33, suffered 80 per cent burns in the suspected petrol attack in Kenya on Sunday.
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00:00It was multi-organ failure from the burns. She had severe burns over a significant portion
00:08of her body. So the severe burns led to multi-organ failure. So we had kidney failure, we had
00:20cardiovascular failure. So most of our systems actually failed following the burns. So we
00:30supported the organs as best as we could, but unfortunately it was beyond what we could
00:40do.