A young woman set herself on fire in the central Bulgarian town of Stara Zagora on Monday, the fourth self-immolation in the country in just over a month, hospital sources said. The 32-year-old woman was hospitalised with 92-percent burns, and local emergency hospital chief Chavdar Popov described her chances of survival as "minimal."
Doctors found a fuel can and the woman's purse at the crossroad where she set herself afire, Popov added.
Her motives were unclear. The severely injured woman was later transported to the burns clinic of the university hospital in the nearby city of Plovdiv, where doctors put her in a medically induced coma. Neighbours told the public BNR radio station that the woman was living with her retired parents and was not very communicative.