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Afghan Asylum Seeker Sets Himself on Fire in Bavaria

© AP PhotoIn this image taken from video fire trucks and ambulances stand in the city center of Ansbach near Nuremberg, southern Germany, Monday morning, July 25, 2016, after a man was killed when an explosive device he was believed to be carrying went off near an open-air music festival, injuring 12 others.
In this image taken from video fire trucks and ambulances stand in the city center of Ansbach near Nuremberg, southern Germany, Monday morning, July 25, 2016, after a man was killed when an explosive device he was believed to be carrying went off near an open-air music festival, injuring 12 others. - Sputnik International
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A 19-year-old Afghan asylum seeker poured petrol over and set himself on fire in a supermarket in Bavarian town of Gaimersheim on Monday, local media reported.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Supermarket employees have extinguished the fire but the victim had sustained severe burns and was transferred to a hospital, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported.

The motives of the act remain unknown.

Germany has been the key destination for thousands of refugees and immigrants coming to Europe since the start of 2015. Last year, the country registered over a million asylum applications, nearly five times more than the number registered in 2014, according to the interior ministry’s estimates.

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