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Gonpo Tsering

By Contact Staff /  November 11, 2012;

The Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala organised a grand prayer service on Sunday, following a report that a Tibetan artist had burned himself to death in north-eastern Tibet. Gonpo Tsering, 19, set fire to himself around 2 pm in Lushoe village in Tsoe county (China’s Hezou in Gansu province) on Saturday. Local Tibetans tried to extinguish the flames, but Gonpo succumbed to his injuries two hours later. His body was taken to his native Kay village, where local Tibetans organised a special prayer service.

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