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Slain Kenyan Olympian Agnes Tirop Buried In Her Home Village

Slain Kenyan Olympian Agnes Tirop Buried In Her Home Village
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Slain Kenyan Olympian Agnes Tirop buried in her home village

A picture of Tirop, grinning and holding up a bronze medal, was placed on top of the coffin. "For us Kenyans, we have lost a hero," said Hellen Obiri, the women's 5,000m world champion and a mentor to Tirop.

Slain Kenyan Olympian Agnes Tirop buried in her home village

By Edwin Waita NANDI COUNTY, Kenya (Reuters) - Slain long-distance Olympic runner Agnes Tirop, a rising star in Kenya's highly competitive athletics s.

Slain Kenyan Olympian Agnes Tirop buried in her home village

Slain Kenyan Olympian Agnes Tirop buried in her home village
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Slain Kenyan Olympian Agnes Tirop buried in her home village

By Edwin Waita NANDI COUNTY, Kenya (Reuters) - Slain long-distance Olympic runner Agnes Tirop, a rising star in Kenya s highly competitive athletics scene, was buried on Saturday at a funeral attended by over 1,000 mourners. Tirop was found stabbed to death in her home in the Rift Valley town of Iten on Oct. 13, in an incident that has shone the spotlight on violence against women https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/two-deaths-shine-spotlight-violence-against-women-kenya-2021-10-15 in Kenya. Her funeral was held on the day she would have turned 26. Mourners including fellow athletes lined up to scatter flowers on a white coffin. A picture of Tirop, grinning and holding up a bronze medal, was placed on top of the coffin. For us Kenyans, we have lost a hero, said Hellen Obiri, the women s 5,000m world champion and a mentor to Tirop. I told her that in 2022, she was to go and defend my titles and represent our country, Obiri said, her eyes shining with tears. Police arrested Tirop s husb

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