AFP: Two Tibetans try to immolate themselves with fire in China and one of them dies

Photo:Vigil for four Tibetans who immolated themselves in protest against China (AFP/Archive)

BEIJING — From the Tibetans, a man and a woman, They set their clothes on fire on Thursday in northwest China and at least one of them died, an NGO reported this Friday.

The events occurred in two different areas of the Tongren district, in the province of Qinghai, where a revolt movement is forcefully repressed, indicated the organization Free Tibet, based in London.

The woman, of 23 years, died. A young man from 18 years he also immolated himself with fire, pero era imposible conocer su estado debido a las "graves restricciones" in communications according to the NGO. The immolations of Tibetans have multiplied in recent days coinciding with the 18 Congress in Beijing of the Chinese CP, after which Vice President Xi Jinping was designated number one of the regime.

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