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6 Self-Immolations

By Contact Staff /  November 8, 2012;

There has been a heartbreaking 6 self-immolations in the past two days bringing the total number to 69 with 54 deaths. Three monks of Ngoshul monastery – Dorjee, 15, Samdub, 16 and Dorjee Kyab, 16 – set fire to themselves at the entrance of a local police in Gomang township in Ngaba county in Amdo. 15-year-old Dorjee died on the spot, while the other two monks were taken to Ngaba county hospital. Tamdin Tso, a 23-year-old nomadic herder, died after setting herself on fire in Rebgong in north-eastern Tibet. In yet another incident, a Tibetan man has set himself on fire in Driru county in Nagchu. Jinpa Gyatso, 18, set himself on fire at Rongwo monastery in Rebgong.

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