A teenaged student in Marseille was hospitalized in critical condition after lighting himself on fire at school. The lad poured a flammable liquid on himself in the restroom of his private school and then set himself alight. He has second and third degrees burns over 70% of his body. It is not yet clear why he did it.
A fellow student said he heard screams, then saw the teen on fire running downstairs towards the school yard. He said that a worker extinguished the flames.
Another student from Bordeaux has been in a coma since last November when he set himself on fire at school.