Fifth Tibetan dies after setting self on fire in China
Associated Press | Updated: October 27, 2012 09:40 IST Beijing: A 23-year-old man has become the fifth Tibetan in a week to set self on fire and die in a county in far western China to protest against Chinese rule, a rights group said on Saturday. Tsewang Kyab set himself on fire on Friday evening on the main street of Amuquhu town in Xiahe county, London-based Free Tibet said. Earlier on Friday, a 24-year-old Tibetan farmer, Lhamo Tseten, died from self-immolation near a military base and a government office in Amuquhu, the group said. China's official Xinhua News Agency reported the self-immolation of a Tibetan man by the same name, though details were slightly different. Xinhua said that Lhamo Tseten was a 23-year-old villager and that he set himself on fire near a hospital. Calls to local governments in both Xiahe and the higher administration Gannan prefecture rang unanswered Saturday. In the past week in Xiahe, which is in Gansu province, a herdsman, a farmer and a