Athletics-Kenyan police arrest husband of dead Tirop


FILE PHOTO-Athletics - Diamond League - Doha - Qatar Sports Club, Doha, Qatar - May 4, 2018 Kenya's Agnes Jebet Tirop celebrates after finishing second in the women's 3000m REUTERS/Ibraheem Al Omari

NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenyan police said on Thursday they had arrested the husband of distance runner Agnes Tirop, a two-times World Championship bronze medallist who was found dead at her home.

Police said on Wednesday that Tirop appeared to have been stabbed in the neck with a knife.

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