General view shows the government and parliament headquarters at Independence square in Minsk, Belarus February 29, 2016. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
The man could be seen on fire on a sprawling, largely empty square in the centre of Minsk near a statue of Lenin in video footage shared online.
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A 35-year-old man in Belarus set himself on fire outside the government headquarters in Minsk on Friday and was hospitalised after passers-by and police put out the flames with a fire extinguisher, police said.
The man could be seen on fire on a sprawling, largely empty square in the centre of Minsk near a statue of Lenin in video footage shared online.
Several people could be seen rushing towards him to try to put the flames out.
The motives for the man’s act were not immediately clear and investigators were working to establish the background, the Belarusian Investigative Committee said in a statement.
It said the man had doused…