THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A French maths teacher who doused herself in petrol and set herself on fire in front of terrified pupils died of her injuries on Friday.
The 44-year-old was hospitalised on Thursday after walking into the playground of a high school in the southern city of Beziers with a jerry can of fuel and starting a blaze that left her with third-degree burns.
She staggered across the yard in front of her horrified students, some of whom joined teachers in rushing to her aid.
She was taken by helicopter to a specialist burns unit at the university teaching hospital in nearby Montpellier, but doctors could not save her.
"(The teacher) had third-degree burns over 95 per cent of her body," a hospital source told AFP. "With these burns there was no way she could have survived." » | Friday, October 14, 2011
