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00:00Ugandan marathonian Rebecca Cheptege has died in a Kenyan hospital after her partner, Dixon
00:06Ndema, doused her in petrol and immolated her as she ran away.
00:10She arrived in hospital with 80% burns.
00:13The Olympic athlete's father described a premeditated ambush.
00:17He purchased five litres of petrol in Endebes.
00:21He got into the compound unnoticed and hid in the chicken coop.
00:26As she opened the chicken coop to prepare it, that's when he pounced and poured the
00:31petrol on her back and lit her up as she was running away.
00:39The home he broke into was where she lived with her two daughters aged nine and eleven,
00:44one of whom described witnessing the attack and said when she tried to come to her mother's
00:48aid, Ndema kicked her so she couldn't.
00:52She then cried out for help, attracting the attention of neighbours.
00:55Cheptege's murder comes just weeks after finishing 44th in the Paris Olympic marathon
01:00and as activists warn of a femicide epidemic in the country.