Tibetan student dies after setting himself alight in India

A photograph of Tenzin Choeying, 19, who died after self-immolating in protest, hangs at a memorial at a Tibetan refugee neighbourhood in the Indian capital New Delhi on July 23, 2017. -AFP

NEW DELHI: A Tibetan student who self-immolated in an act of protest against Chinese rule in the Himalayan region has died in an Indian hospital, a doctor said Sunday.

Tenzin Choeying, 19, succumbed to critical burn injuries in New Delhi a week after shouting “Victory to Tibet” and setting fire to himself at a university campus in Varanasi, in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state.