Damaris Mutua: Kenya open investigation following athlete’s murder
Kenya-born Bahraini athlete Damaris Muthee Mutua was murdered in a Kenyan town, Iten – which serves as the country’s athletics village.
The local police authorities announced that Mutua’s body was found in a house and her Ethiopian boyfriend is a suspect.
“The body has been taken to a nearby hospital mortuary,” police chief Tom Makori told the AFP news agency.
“The suspect called a friend whom they were training together and informed him that he has killed a girlfriend and the body was in the house.”
Mutua won bronze medal for Kenya in the 1,000 metres at the 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore before switching her allegiance to Bahrain.
The 28-year-old recently participated in the Cross Country event at the Arab Cross Country Challenge in February 2022 and half marathon at the Meia Maratona Internacional Da Paz Angola in April 2022.
Mutua is the second female runner to killed in Iten in less than a year after long-distance Olympic runner Agnes Tirop was stabbed to death.
