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.