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Panicked tourists run for their lives as man sets himself on fire in busy Brazil subway station
A man set himself on fire inside a busy subway station in Brazil in a horrific scene captured on video.
The unidentified 74-year-old was seen engulfed in flames in the São Bento station in downtown São Paulo on the morning of Friday, May 30.
The man reportedly drank a flammable liquid and then poured it on himself before setting himself ablaze. He later died at the hospital.
Video showed the man walking on the Line 1-Blue platform completely covered in flames as passersby looked on in horror.
Subway security agents and bystanders responded and helped extinguished the flames.
The São Paulo Fire Department and paramedics later arrived on the scene and provided the man emergency first aid.
After the blaze was extinguished, the man was seen standing motionless with many of clothing burned off. A worried witness approached to ask what he had done, according to a video.
'My god in heaven, what is this?' the witness is heard asking.
'My god, why would you do this?' My god. Holy f*****g s***,' he added.
The man was rushed to São Paulo Hospital, where he was reportedly confused and angered as he received treatment.
He died shortly after 8pm local time, the hospital said.
Witness Wellington Castello was at the station at the time and said he saw the man fully covered in flames when he and two other passengers decided to help.
'He wasn't screaming, he was just walking with his hands open. At first, I even thought it was some kind of "magic,"' Castello wrote on social media, according to the news outlet Jornal de Brasilia.
'But I realized that it was a person on fire. Then, a guy grabbed a fire extinguisher and ran, I grabbed another one, and another came from the other side with one too. The fire wouldn't go out, it took a few seconds,' he added.
