Suicide at Chennai passport office over Lanka Tamil plight

Chennai A 26-year-old man tried self-immolation at the Chennai passpot office to highlight the suffering of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka. He was taken to a nearby Govt hospital with 75% burns and died shortly after reaching there.

Muthukumar, a DTP operator for a Tamil magazine 'Penne Nee' (a women's magazine affiliated to PMK) doused himself with kerosene at the passport and set himself on fire chanting anti-govt and pro-Tamil statements.
Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), the regional party to which the magazine 'Penne Nee' is affiliated to, is staunch critic of the state and Centre on the Sri Lanka issue though it continues to share ministerial berth at the Centre.


Before attempting suicide Muthukumar shouted, “The govt of India is not doing the needful to help the Tamil in Sri Lanka. The whole of India should know about the issue”.