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Tibetan nomad dies in self-immolation: Rights group

 
Published on Jan 23, 2013
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In this Dec 25, 2012 photo, Beijing-based artist Liu Yi casts his shadow on his painting of portraits of Tibetans who have self-immolated over the past three years as he works at his studio in Songzhuang art village in Tongzhou, on the outskirt of Beijing. -- PHOTO: AP

BEIJING (AFP) - A Tibetan man has died after setting himself on fire, a Western rights group said on Wednesday, the latest in a string of self-immolations carried out in protest against Chinese rule.

Kunchok Kyab, a 26-year-old nomad, set himself alight on Tuesday at a Buddhist monastery in a Tibetan autonomous region of western China's Gansu province, London-based Free Tibet said in a statement.

US-based Radio Free Asia (RFA) also reported the death on Tuesday, describing it as the 98th case of an ethnic Tibetan self-burning in China since February 2009.

Free Tibet said the dead man is survived by a wife and a baby, while RFA reported there were two children. Both Free Tibet and RFA said the incident was the third to have taken place this year.

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