Man critical after setting himself alight while in videocall with ex girlfriend

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 6 - A 35-year-old Romanian man was in a critical condition in Milan's Niguarda hospital on Thursday after setting himself on fire overnight while inside a car parked outside his ex-girlfriend home in the nearby town of Cinisello Balsamo. The woman told Carabinieri police that he was in a videocall with her when he poured petrol over himself and lit it. When he was on fire, the man opened the door of the car and got out and firefighters found him on the ground next to it. Th...

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