BEIJING: A Tibetan has died after setting himself on fire to protest at China’s rule of the Himalayan region in the first self-immolation for three months, a rights group and overseas media said Wednesday.
Sangye Khar set himself alight outside a police station in Xiahe county in western China’s Gansu province, the Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) and US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA) both said.
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