Video: Woman lights herself on fire as protest

Disturbing video from Rome, Italy shows a woman lighting herself on fire to protest a visit by the president of Senegal.

Reuters reported that the woman "wanted to kill herself at all costs," according to a police officer who added that the woman "also wanted at one point to throw herself off a ledge."

Senegalese officials said that the unidentified woman had sought to meet the president, Abdoulaye Wade. Italian media reports described the woman, who lives in northern Italy, as an activist for Senegalese immigrant rights. She suffered severe burns but was at last report alive and in critical condition.









