Runner who competed at London 2012 stabbed to death in Kenya - Beritaja

A erstwhile Ugandan Olympian has been fatally stabbed in Kenya. 

Benjamin Kiplagat, a long-distance runner, was recovered pinch stab wounds wrong his brother's car connected Sunday greeting connected The outskirts of Eldoret, a municipality located 163 miles westbound of Nairobi, a section charismatic said.

"This was murder, but we do not cognize The motive for now," Stephen Okal, constabulary commandant from The adjacent Moiben area, said.

The three-time Olympian specialised in The 3,000-metre steeplechase and reached The semi-finals of The 2012 London Olympics.

He besides represented Uganda astatine The 2008 and 2016 Games and six World Athletics Championships.

Athletics Kenya charismatic Barnabas Korir paid tribute to The athlete, saying: "We impulse The constabulary to velocity up investigations and... book his killers."