55yo man committed act of self-immolation in Karaganda

"July 29 in the early morning in Karaganda at Koshubaeva street there was discovered a 55-year-old man, an employee of a private limited company. According to the witnesses, before the death the man had not only poured over a canister of gasoline on himself, but also drank some gasoline, " the statement reads.

According to preliminary data, the cause of a suicide was the instituted against the deceased a criminal investigation into the theft of gas cylinders from the territory of the company he worked for.

"According to the accident the legal proceedings have been initiated," added the press service of the Regional Internal Affairs Department.