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Gunshot Wounds

December 25, 2014;

News has emerged from Tibet that two Tibetans sustained gunshot wounds while attempting to protect Kalsang Yeshe from the authorities during his self-immolation protest on Tuesday. Police fired warning shots to disperse a crowd that had gathered at the scene as the monk was engulfed in flames, wounding two Tibetans. One of them, Tsering, managed to contact a monk living in India to pass on the news.

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