A man set himself on fire outside Warsaw’s landmark Palace of Culture on Thursday in what some media reports said was a protest against Poland’s ruling conservatives.

Police did not immediately confirm that the incident was a political protest.

The elderly man poured an inflammable substance over himself and then set himself alight, the wiadomosci.onet.pl website reported, citing police.

He was taken to hospital in a serious condition, the website said, adding that “everything indicates that he did what he did for political reasons”.

(pk)

Source: wiadomosci.onet.pl