Ahead of BRICS meet,Tibetan makes self-immolation bid

Yeshi,who suffered 95 per cent burns,is undergoing treatment at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.

Two days before Chinese President Hu Jintaos scheduled arrival in Delhi for the BRICS summit,a 27-year-old Tibetan activist,Jamphel Yeshi,attempted self-immolation during a protest at Jantar Mantar on Monday.

Yeshi,who suffered 95 per cent burns,is undergoing treatment at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.

Yeshi reportedly fled Tibet in 2006,and had been living at the Tibetan settlement Majnu ka Tila in the Capital for the last three years.

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I spoke to him after he was hospitalised. He said his father had died and his mother was still in Tibet. His cousins told me he often spoke of self-immolation, said Tsewang Dolma,an activist from Nepal.

According to the police,they received a call about the incident at 12:39 pm. We are trying to ascertain the sequence of events. No arrests have been made so far though about 300 people were detained, said a police officer. A case has been registered against the youth for attempted suicide.

Meanwhile,Tibetan Youth Congress activists said their protests would continue.