Another Falun Gong Follower Immolated in Beijing

Another Falun Gong Follower Immolated in Beijing

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A 25-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, male, committed self-immolation at noon Friday in Beijing, and by the time police arrived, he was already dead.

The public security bureaus of Beijing and central China's Hunan Province identified the man, a shoe polisher, as Tan Yihui. He was born in 1975 and resided in No. 117 Jianmin Lane of Changde City in Hunan.

An eyewitness called the police at 12:06 pm when he saw the man, soaked in gasoline, set himself on fire at Wanshoulu in western Beijing.

Police arrived in 3 minutes, while the man was still ablaze. The fire was immediately put out by the police with extinguishers they carried in their emergency car.

The police found a red household registration certificate near the corpse, in which laid an identity card, a train ticket from Changsha to Beijing and a 6-page letter on the reason why he chose to immolate himself.

The train ticket shows that he left Changsha at 13:43 pm Thursday.