TY Baker!
A 33-year-old Indian man has died after setting himself ablaze near the White House, police said on Thursday.
Arnav Gupta from Bethesda in Maryland died of burn injuries after he set himself ablaze on Wednesday at the Ellipse, a tourist-filled 52-acre public park near the White House.
Once the flames were extinguished, Gupta was rushed to a local hospital for treatment but died on Thursday morning, the United States Park Police said in a statement.
"At approximately 12:20 pm a man lit himself on fire on the Ellipse near 15th and Constitution Ave., Secret Service personnel are on scene assisting @NatlParkService and @usparkpolicepio in rendering first aid," according to a tweet by the US Secret Service.
Police said Gupta was reported missing by his family since Wednesday morning. The authorities then put out a notice asking for the public's help in finding him.
He was last seen by his family around 9:20 am Wednesday when he left his home on Cindy Lane, about 16 kms northwest of the White House, the Washington Post reported.
Montgomery County Police said the family was “concerned for Gupta’s physical and emotional welfare”.
Authorities are trying to identify the accelerant (a substance used to aid the spread of fire) that was used and determine whether a car belonging to Gupta was parked in the area.
The Washington D.C. police have taken over the investigation.
A 17-year-old girl from Alexandria, who was sightseeing with a cousin visiting from Bolivia, saw part of the incident and captured it on video. She sent it to her father, who posted it on Twitter, the paper reported.
The video shows smoke billowing from the lawn near a guard shack and some flames visible above parked cars.
The girl’s father, Krisjan Berzins, said that his daughter saw “Secret Service agents running toward him trying to extinguish the fire”.
In April, authorities said a man riding a motorised wheelchair set his jacket on fire outside the White House.
He was not critically injured and was involuntarily committed for psychiatric help.
https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/world-news-indian-man-dies-after-setting-himself-ablaze-near-white-house/331248
well sheeyaht - that is interdasting as fuck…
For the past decade, much of the money to operate Hillary's projects has come from the Bay Area, via the San Francisco-based American Himalayan Foundation. Founded by financier Richard Blum, husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and run out of the Montgomery Street offices of Blum Capital Partners, the AHF also operates a vast network of its own projects: 76 schools, half a dozen orphanages, plus Tibetan refugee camps, medical clinics and other initiatives throughout Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan and India.
Sixty percent of the foundation's $2.2 million-a-year budget comes from donors in Northern California, according to AHF President Erica Stone. "Our biggest concentration of supporters, by far," she said, "is in the 94708 ZIP code - the Berkeley hills."
A sign outside Blum's office identifies him as the honorary consul of Nepal.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Connected-to-the-Khumbu-Tenzing-Norgay-s-son-2647299.php
I guess that was a pretty big burn to the Dimms back then…
Kek
He gave us a 5 at 11:08