Two teenagers have set themselves on fire near a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in south-west China amid rumours that dozens of monks were ready to ‘sacrifice their lives”, rights groups said on Friday.
The teenagers – Choepel and Khayang – were former monks from Sichuan province’s Kirti monastery, the scene of repeated protests, the London-based Free Tibet said in statement.
The latest incidents – confirmed by another rights group with contacts in the region – take the number of people reported to have set themselves on fire to seven this year.
Free Tibet, an activist group, said there were unconfirmed reports that Choepel, 19, had died while the condition of Khayang, 18, was not known.
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