Nem Davies
Mizzima News
March 25, 2008
New Delhi - According to a police source, the health of the man who set himself ablaze on Friday apparently due to economic hardship is critical.
"His situation is really bad. It is not good," said the police source.
The man, identified as Thaw Zin Naing (a.k.a. Aung Gyi), age 26, of Bassein in the Irrawaddy Division, set himself ablaze on Friday at Rangoon's famous Buddhist shrine of Shwedagon.
He was immediately rushed to the hospital by security guards, who then tightened security at the Pagoda, which was often used as a gathering place by dissidents during last September's Saffron Revolution.
A policeman said the parents of Thaw Zin Naing, who reportedly has burns over 75 percent of his body, have arrived in Rangoon to be with their son.
It is still unclear to which hospital Thaw Zin Naing is admitted. However eyewitnesses said a plainclothes security official was seen guarding the Rangoon General Hospital's burnt-patient ward and restricting access to the ward.
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