RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A Saudi newspaper says a vegetable seller who set himself on fire in Riyadh after police confiscated his goods for standing in an unauthorized area has died.
The website for newspaper Sada reported that the man, identified only by the family name of Sureihi, died in hospital late on Friday.
via news.yahoo.com
A similar act by a street vendor in Tunisia, whose 2011 death sparked the Arab Spring uprisings.
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