Fatal Tibetan fire protests continue

One man dead and another seriously injured after setting themselves alight in Qinghai province of China

Two more Tibetans have set themselves on fire in protest at Chinese rule. One of the men died and the other was left with serious injuries.

The Tibetan Youth Congress said by email that the two men self-immolated on Wednesday in Yushu prefecture, a heavily Tibetan area in west China's Qinghai province. The group and the official Xinhua news agency said one man died and the other was seriously injured.

Xinhua reported on Thursday that the dead man was a herder and the survivor a migrant carpenter from Aba prefecture in Sichuan province. It said their names and ages were not immediately available.

The cases add to about three dozen self-immolations over the past year in ethnic Tibetan areas of China. The government has confirmed some but not all of them.

The Tibetan Youth Congress identified the dead man as 24-year-old Tenzin Khedup and the injured as Ngawang Norphel, 22. It released a video and photos of the protest.

Beijing blames the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama for inciting the self-immolations. The Dalai Lama denies that and says the acts are the result of China's repressive policies in Tibet.