Rights groups: Tibetan nun sets herself on fire to protest Beijing's controls
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Overseas Tibetan rights groups say a nun has set herself on fire to protest Beijing's control over the region in the latest in dozens of self-immolations by Tibetans in recent years.
London-based Free Tibet said Friday that Yeshi Khando circled a monastery and then self-immolated while calling out slogans including "Tibet needs freedom."
The Washington, D.C.-based International Campaign for Tibet also reported the immolation, but used a slightly different spelling for the nun's name.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The groups says security personnel and police used extinguishers to put out the flames and took Yeshi Khando away, and that local sources believed she died.
A woman reached at the Ganzi county government denied that any self-immolation happened on Wednesday and hung up. Calls to the county police office rang unanswered.