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Lebanese Woman Dies in Self-Immolation

A Lebanese woman died on Wednesday after setting herself on fire at her house near the southern city of Tyre, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said that B.Z., 38, was killed when she self-immolated at her home in the area of al-Marj in Jwayya.

Her husband was injured as he tried to rescue her, it said.

Security forces launched an investigation into the incident, whose cause remained unknown.


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