Five people set themselves on fire in Gujarat, leaving one man dead as they protested against official plans to raze their home in a drive to remove illegal structures, police said yesterday.

The five people, including three women, belonged to the same family and turned up at a city government office in Rajkot carrying kerosene-filled containers around noon yesterday, the police said.

Ram Sinh, a police official based in Rajkot said the group came“to request the officials to stop demolition of illegal encroachments.”

“But when their request was not granted they poured kerosene on themselves and set themselves on fire,”Sinh said.

Municipal officials in Rajkot, located 200km from the state’s main city Ahmedabad had declared the family’s home illegal and issued an order to tear down the structure, leaving them in a desperate state, Sinh said.

“The five have been identified as Rekha, Asha, Vasumati, Bharat and Girish .... Out of which Girish, who was 35-years-old succumbed to injuries in hospital,”he said.

The burn victims sustained severe injuries and have been admitted to a local government hospital, where their condition is said to be stable, he added.

Rajkot Municipal Corporation commissioner Ajay Bhadoo said the authorities had launched a probe into the burnings.

“We are inquiring into the matter, into today’s incident,”he said.

Indian cities are home to tens of thousands of illegal buildings, with officials sporadically launching demolition drives to tear down allegedly unauthorised structures.

In the run-up to the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Delhi civic authorities evicted countless people from their homes as they razed thousands of slum dwellings in an attempt to beautify the city.

http://www.gulf-times.com/india/185/details/347822/one-dead-as-family-of-five-set-themselves-on-fire-in-rajkot

But, whats happening these dayz

This is madness abeg. Its not worth it

Na so their life bitter reach. cause i know say these kind thing no fit happen for Naija

What a world!!!

ok

Awesome!
Better luck in hell or heaven, whichever one the Almighty has allocated for ya'all for the dead ones, and for the survivors, keep trying till you achieve your aim!

They are used to it. No be them get highest rate of suicide for this world??

They should have used petrol.

it's their choice......i learn it in NL to respect pples choice and opinion.....so that's w@ their choice is....

So unfortunate, not worth it at all, just because of a building, how about many sleeping under bridges and inside boxes?, while there is life there is hope.

Setting themselves on fire won't help anything. It will only add to the death/injury list.

END SHALL NEVER WONDER...

So sad.

end time

na waa ooo

for nigeria is impossible, we value life over property even me no go try am for where. life no get duplicate.

Na wa oooo... Pple wanting 2 kill dem self by dem self. Dis tin suprise me ooo

It happens in Gujarat. No b today. Na so gujarat people be . Na poverty dey kill dem finish.

Genetical insanity

crisycent: This is what i call PEACEFUL PROTEST.

Are you serious?!

Na so die dey hungry them!!!!! ShoO0o

sheyie2007: But, whats happening these dayz

Italian family's triple suicide 'blamed on government austerity measures which left them in huge debt'

Couple hanged themselves at their home in Italian seaside town
On hearing the news her elderly brother threw himself into the sea
The family tragedy has triggered an outpouring of grief around the country

PUBLISHED: 16:48 GMT, 7 April 2013 | UPDATED: 17:06 GMT, 7 April 2013


Three members of the same Italian family have taken their own lives after state-imposed austerity measures and mounting debts left them believing there was no way out.


Anna-Maria and Romeo Dionisi hanged themselves at their home in the seaside town of Civitanova on the Adriatic coast, becoming the latest victims of the economic crisis.

Mr Dionisi, 63, a former builder, had lost his job and was unable to draw a pension after the state raised the retirement age by five years, 16 months ago, as part of a series of Europe-imposed cuts.
Pensioners in Italy have been particularly badly hit by the austerity measures brought in by Mario Monti's (pictured) government

Pensioners in Italy have been particularly badly hit by the austerity measures brought in by Mario Monti's (pictured) government

The couple were not able to get by on Mrs Dionisi’s pension of less than almost £500 a month and had fallen months behind on their rent and bills.

On hearing the news, Mrs Dionisi’s elderly brother, Giuseppe Sopranzi, 78, who lived next door to the couple, threw himself into the sea.

Although many are struggling in Italy as the economy falters and cuts bite, the family tragedy has struck a nerve - triggering an outpouring of grief around the entire country.

At their funeral on Saturday politicians were mobbed by furious friends and family who denouced the deaths as ‘murder by the state’.

The mayor of Civitanova Tommaso Corvatta told the newspaper La Stampa: ‘Such was their dignity that this family preferred to end it all in tragedy, rather than ask for help.

‘In another place a similar situation would have driven people to crime.

‘When politicians debate economic policy in the great palaces of state they need to think on the people like this at the other end of the chain, and remember that.’

The shoe company where Mr Dionisi worked as a clerk had shut five years ago and he had struggled lately to find work.

The couple owed around £15,000 in taxes and feared their car and furniture would be repossessed.

They had become ‘desperate’, local residents said. Mrs Dionisi had completely given up hope, and was very depressed.

Neighbours who discovered the couple’s bodies also found a note asking for forgiveness.

Mr Sopranzi, a former clerk in a shoe factory, returned from a walk on the beach to find police outside the building. When he heard what his beloved sister had done he cast himself into the harbour.

Attempts to revive him failed.

Suicides have become increasingly common in the recession, Italy’s longest for 20 years.

Pensioners have been particularly badly hit by the austerity measures brought in by Mario Monti’s government. Measures to help some 40,000 of those left without pensions have been brought in but the overall number affected is at least 150,000.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305362/Anna-Maria-Romeo-Dionisi-Italian-familys-triple-suicide-blamed-government-austerity-measures-left-huge-debt.html#ixzz2PsQL9wRd

Notin person no go see for this world

Na wa for India. Them for go lie for train track make train help them.
I have seen where a group of farmers were protesting that their land was being taken from them.
Live on TV, about 10 of these farmers drank poison and die on the spot in less than 5 mins while the camera was still rolling.

Naija these india pple get craze pass us o

Real madness[color=#990000][/color]