Tibetan student self-immolates in India

A Tibetan student has self-immolated in India after shouting "freedom", police said yesterday, injuring himself critically. The student set himself on fire on Friday at the Central University for Tibetan Studies in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh state. Self-immolation has regularly been used as a protest against China's actions in Tibet.  But Indian police said they are also investigating the 20-year-old's recent exam failures as being a possible cause for his actions.