<p>Holding a Tibetan flag, Sonam Sherabe was raising slogans outside the embassy. As police reinforcements tried to remove him from the diplomatic enclave, he suddenly set himself on fire, a police officer said.<br /><br />“Some of us pinned him to the ground and doused the flames," the officer said. The Tibetan was rushed to Ram Manohar Lohia hospital, where doctors said he was recovering.<br /><br />According to police, Sherabe is a resident of the Majnu ka Tilla Tibetan settlement in north Delhi.<br /><br />India is home to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and around 100,000 Tibetan exiles.</p>
<p>Holding a Tibetan flag, Sonam Sherabe was raising slogans outside the embassy. As police reinforcements tried to remove him from the diplomatic enclave, he suddenly set himself on fire, a police officer said.<br /><br />“Some of us pinned him to the ground and doused the flames," the officer said. The Tibetan was rushed to Ram Manohar Lohia hospital, where doctors said he was recovering.<br /><br />According to police, Sherabe is a resident of the Majnu ka Tilla Tibetan settlement in north Delhi.<br /><br />India is home to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and around 100,000 Tibetan exiles.</p>