An Algerian, 37, unemployed and homeless, who had set himself on fire on Jan. 15 in Tebessa, a town near the border with Tunisia, died Monday morning from his injuries, it was learned medical source. Mohcin Bouterfa has died of his burns, "said Mohamed Salah Boudjelakh, anesthetist serving Burn Hospital in Annaba, where he was admitted after being doused with gasoline and set to be fire in front of city hall mining Boukhadra, east of Tebessa.The victim, a father of a girl in search of employment and housing, meant by that gesture of despair "denounce the attitude of contempt displayed towards him by the elected representatives" of the Common Boukhadra. This is the second suicide by fire recorded in Algeria since mid-January.
Karim Bendim, single, mentally ill, had died Saturday at his injuries in hospital Douéra, twenty miles southwest of Algiers, where he was admitted after attempting for unknown reasons to end his days in the same way, before the mayor of Dellys, 70 km east of Algiers. In Algeria, riots against the rise in prices of essential commodities were between 6 and 9 January, five people dead and more than eight hundred wounded.
The government then ordered to lower prices on food staples and said it would continue to subsidize wheat, milk and electricity, among others. Last Saturday, a demonstration "for democracy", prevented by police, leaving several people wounded in the heart of Algiers, nineteen according to police and forty-two according to the organizer of the banned opposition.
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