The 33-year-old athlete is being treated in the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in the Kenyan Rift Valley city of Eldoret after Sunday’s attack.
Cheptegei sustained burns to 80 per cent of her body, the hospital’s acting CEO Owen Menach told reporters on Tuesday, saying everything was being done to save her life.
Police said a man identified as Dickson Ndiema Marangach had doused Cheptegei with petrol and set her alight at her home in Endebess in the western county of Trans-Nzoia.
There was no official medical update from the hospital on Wednesday.
However, a medical counsellor at the hospital, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity as they were not authorised to speak to the press, said her condition had worsened.
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