Afghan refugee who set himself alight dies in Australia
Xinhua, September 17, 2015 Adjust font size:
A convicted child molester from Afghanistan has died in a Perth hospital in Australia after setting himself on fire at the Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre died overnight on Thursday.
The Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) confirmed a man who wrapped himself in a petrol soaked sheet on Tuesday night died, local media reported.
Two guards who helped him were also injured.
In a statement, DIBP said Western Australian police were now investigating the death.
The dead man Ali Jafarri was granted refugee status, but had his permanent protection visa cancelled after being convicted of six counts of an indecent act with a child.
Jafarri also pleaded guilty in the Victorian County Court last year to one federal charge of accessing child pornography material using a computer in a public library. Endi