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| Man sets himself on fire in Sydney to protest the immigration department | |
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| A man who set himself on fire near Sydney’s Central station was protesting the Department of Immigration, according to New South Wales police. | |
| The man, aged around 30, doused himself in petrol and set himself alight on Lee Street near the department at 1.30pm on Friday. | |
| Superintendent David Donohue could not confirm if the man was an asylum seeker or had been through the immigration system. | |
| “I’m not at liberty to discuss what his issues were but he was protesting the Dept of Immigration,” he said at a press conference. | |
| Donohue said the man was “deeply unsettled” and “would have killed himself” if police had not doused him with a fire extinguisher. He is being treated for superficial burns to his thighs. | |
| Police negotiated with the man for eight to ten minutes before he set himself alight, he said. | |
| Police have not yet spoken to the immigration department. | |
| This incident is not terror-related. | This incident is not terror-related. |
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