CAIRO – Two men set themselves ablaze in Egypt on Tuesday, security officials said, bringing to 10 the number such cases in the Arab world, including a Tunisian whose action sparked a revolution. An Egyptian security official said a 25-year-old unemployed man suffering mental problems set himself ablaze in the northern city of Alexandria on Tuesday, suffering third degree burns. Another man set himself alight outside Egypt’s government headquarters in Cairo, an official reported earlier on Tuesday.
He was only slightly injured and taken to hospital. The incidents follow a similar one in Cairo on Monday in which a man poured fuel on himself and set himself on fire on a busy street in front of the People’s Assembly.
