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| 2 Egyptians hurt after 'setting themselves ablaze' |
| 2011-01-20 |
| I guess the shoe throwing thing got old... Earlier this week, three other Egyptians set themselves on fire in an apparent suicide bid matched by several other people across the Arab world to copy a Tunisian whose self-immolation sparked a revolution. One of them, Ahmed Hashem al-Sayyed, a 25-year-old who turned himself into a human fireball on the roof of his house in the northern city of Alexandria on Tuesday, died in hospital later in the day. Another man said to be a lawyer in his 40s set himself alight outside government headquarters in Cairo, an official reported. He was slightly injured and taken to hospital. And on Monday, a man poured fuel on himself and set himself on fire on a busy street in front of the People's Assembly. |
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