A third Egyptian man set himself on fire on Tuesday in Alexandria’s Khorshid neighborhood, security sources said.
Ahmed Hashim al-Sayed, 25, set fire to himself on the top floor of his building in Khourshid, a security source said. The source added that al-Sayed is currently unemployed and police are still investigating the reasons behind his attempt at self-immolation. A medical source told Al-Masry Al-Youm that al-Sayed has been hospitalized and suffers from third degree burns.
Two earlier attempts at self-immolation in Egypt include an Egyptian lawyer named Mohamed Farouk who set himself on fire near parliament in downtown Cairo earlier in the day on Tuesday, and a 49-year-old man who set himself ablaze near parliament on Monday after chanting anti-government slogans.
Similar cases have been reported in Algeria and Mauritania. Like the Tunisians, whose public protests led to the ousting of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, Arabs in many states are frustrated by soaring prices, poverty, high unemployment and authoritarian systems of rule that deny them a voice.
