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Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei has died in Kenya, four days after being set on fire by her boyfriend in an attack in her home. "She had severe percentage of burns, which unfortunately led to multi-organ failure," says Kimani Mbugua, head of the intensive care unit at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. SOUNDBITE
AERIAL SHOTS of fires in the Brazilian Amazon as the rainforest has recorded more than 42,000 forest fires from January 1 to August 19, according to the INPE, the worst number in nearly two decades. IMAGES
Firefighters from the ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation), Brazil's federal protected areas agency, use helicopters and make firebreaks to combat a blaze in the Amazon rainforest. Nearly 3,000 forest fires were registered in the Brazilian Amazon in February 2024, the highest for any February since records began in 1999, and made more likely by climate change, according to experts. IMAGES
The death toll from the Amazon warehouse that partially collapsed in Edwardsville, Illinois has risen to six, local fire chief James Whiteford announces, bringing total killed from storms that devasted parts of the US to more than 80. SOUNDBITE
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, widely criticized over policies that favor deforestation and a delayed reaction to the wildfires, appears via videoconference to participate in a regional summit on fires that have devastated the Amazon. IMAGES