A Tibetan nun tried to take her own life by setting herself on fire in China to protest against the repressive policy of the authorities in her region., announced a media and an organization based abroad.
This woman carried out this desperate act on Saturday in Kardze prefecture, in Sichuan Province, a Tibetan region located in southwestern China, indicated Radio Free Asia (RFA) y la ONG Free Tibet.
The identity was not revealed., nor the age, nor the state of health of this nun, because communications with their region were cut off, as generally happens after an immolation with fire, by order of the authorities.
This Tibetan woman set her clothes on fire in a monastery and the people there took her to the hospital, Kalsang Gyaltsen told RFA, a Tibetan official in exile in India.
Many Tibetans who did the same died from their severe burns..
More of 120 Tibetans immolated themselves with fire or tried to do so from 2009, to protest against the repression of their religion and culture.
