{"id":109627,"date":"2024-10-02T19:30:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109627"},"modified":"2024-10-02T19:30:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T12:30:06","slug":"thousands-turn-out-for-funeral-of-murdered-olympian-rebecca-cheptegei-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109627","title":{"rendered":"Thousands turn out for funeral of murdered Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gIAPourkJZk?autoplay=1&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Thousands of mourners have gathered for the funeral of Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei.<\/p>\n<p>The athlete died after being set on fire by her former boyfriend, and has now been buried in her father&#8217;s homestead in eastern Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>As she was also a member of Uganda&#8217;s armed forces, soldiers carried the coffin and gave a three-volley salute at the service.<\/p>\n<p>Dickson Ndiema attacked Cheptegei with petrol just under a fortnight ago outside her home in neighbouring north-west Kenya, close to where she trained.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old&#8217;s killing, and its brutal nature, left her family distraught and shocked many others across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#RebeccaCheptegei #Uganda #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gIAPourkJZk\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of mourners have gathered for the funeral of Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei. The athlete died after being set on fire by her former boyfriend, and has now been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109627\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}