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Man sets self ablaze in Albouystown

May 30, 2012 News

 

 

A 59-year-old man doused himself with kerosene then proceeded to set himself alight. He sustained severe burns to his body.
Residents, who witnessed the actions of the man, proceeded to extinguish the flames by pouring water and flour on the man.
The man’s whose name was given as Brian Bovell, had visited his younger sister, Oslyn Stephens, at her Albouystown residence yesterday morning, moments before he set his entire body ablaze.
Stephens said that when her brother visited her, she was not fully dressed to immediately attend to him, but she clothed herself and then she talked with him briefly. She said Bovell mumbled something, but was smiling all the time.
Stephens said after her brother left she later received a message from residents living in Albouystown (Punt Trench dam) alerting her to the fact that her brother had purchased kerosene and had set himself ablaze.
She said after he set himself alight he came back to her residence and she called a taxi. Accompanied by one of her nieces, she transported Bovell to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he is a patient.
“His head is black, black and his lips are white,” the man’s sister said. Bovell’s abdomen was said to be swollen.
Stephens said she cannot understand why her brother would want to do something like that.

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