Hague: Egyptian tries to torch himself outside Egyptian embassy

Hague: Egyptian tries to torch himself outside Egyptian embassy

Via Times LIVE:
Dutch police said Wednesday they had stopped a man of Egyptian descent from setting himself on fire outside his country's embassy in The Hague.

"When police came near him, they saw the man dousing himself with a liquid," possibly spirits, it said. "The agents overpowered the man as he was trying to set himself on fire using a lighter."

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