Name: Lhamo Kyab
Age: 27
Status: Died
Father’s Name: Topden
Mother’s Name: Nyingmo Thar
Affiliation: Bhora village, Sangchu county
Location of incident: Bhora village, Sangchu county, Ganlho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Ch: Gansu Province)
Date of Self-immolation: 2012-10-20
Info: A Tibetan in his late twenties called Lhamo Kyab set fire to himself and died today near Bora monastery in Sangchu county, Ganlho prefecture in Gansu province. Lhamo Kyab leaves a wife and two children, aged 10 and 7. According to Tibetans in exile, Lhamo Kyab was seen running along the road in flames, and calling for the Dalai Lama to come home to Tibet. The same sources said that police tried to put out the flames, and a local man took off his shirt and tried to fling it over Lhamo Kyab but the blaze was too strong.
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