12-Year-Old Who Set Herself Ablaze Dies
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A 12-year-old girl who set herself on fire in Tiananmen Square in a purported protest against the crackdown on the Falun Gong meditation sect has died in a Beijing hospital, government-run television said.
Liu Siying died Saturday night of heart trouble at Jishuitan Hospital, where she had been receiving treatment since she and four others set themselves ablaze Jan. 23.
One of the other four, Liu’s mother, died that day in the square. The three who remain are still in the hospital’s burn unit. The government says the protesters were members of the sect, but Falun Gong has denied it.
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