A Tibetan exile set himself on fire and suffered life-threatening burns as he ran down a street in New Delhi on Monday to protest against a visit this week to India by Chinese President Hu Jintao. The 27-year-old, identified by fellow protesters as Janphel Yeshi, carried out his attempted self-immolation in Jantar Mantar, a city centre venue for public rallies and demonstrations. Yeshi, dressed in a cardigan and dark trousers, screamed as his body was covered in flames and he ran along the road with black smoke pouring from his hair, according to witnesses. “Suddenly this guy came running along,” Nyima Tashi, a 39-year-old Tibetan businessman based in Delhi, told AFP. “Then he fell down. We were all shocked. “One of our supporters threw a coat on him to try to put out the flames and then the police took him away hospital. He was heavily burned.”
