The man threw multicolored pamphlets in the air before lighting himself on fire.
It took several mins for officers to rush to the scene. A detective who was early to arrive tried to smother the man — who had collapsed — w/his coat to extinguish the flames. Soon, officers swarmed the scene & used a fire extinguisher.
The man was still moving as officers knelt beside him & asked his name. He was loaded into an ambulance & taken away.