Elderly man dies in Chhaimale self-immolation case

KATHMANDU: A 79-year-old man self-immolated in Chhaimale on the southern outskirts of Kathmandu, in an apparent suicide case.

While all family members were not home, Bishnu Bahadur Khatri today poured kerosene on his body and set himself on fire at his hut in Dakshinakali Municipality-11 of Kathmandu, police said.

Police are looking into the death incident.