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Tibetan Man Dies in Third Self-Immolation in Four Days

Another Tibetan man has died in the third self-immolation in four days, Voice of America reports. Fifty-seven year-old Dorjee Rinchen set himself on fire near the Labrang Monastery in Gansu. A day earlier, a 61-year-old farmer, Dhondup, also self-immolated near the monastery. On Saturday, another man set himself on fire elsewhere in Gansu. These deaths bring the total of self-immolations since 2009