Man Dies After Self-Immolation in Republic Square
While photographing and interviewing participants at a rally held outside the Presidential Palace by citizens evicted from their homes to make way for new construction in central Yerevan, shocking news started to circulate that a man had set himself on fire in Yerevan’s Republic Square.
An hour later that news was confirmed with RFE/RL’s Emil Danielyan informing CRD/TI Armenia that the man was not expected to survive. Although there was speculation that the man had also been evicted from his home, this theory has now been ruled out.
RFE/RL’s Irina Hovannisyan now reports that the man has since died from burns that covered 80 percent of his body at a Yerevan hospital.
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