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By FaynerIsBack | May 14, 2008

Kerosene-soaked man dies after lighting up in police station

A Japanese man who had doused himself with kerosene in front of police died of burns after asking to smoke during interrogation.

Hifumi Kubota, 45, was taken for questioning to a police station in the central Japanese city of Nagoya on Saturday after a woman who was living with him told police that he was acting violently.

When officers came to his house, “he poured kerosene over himself in front of police,” a police spokesman said.

Mr Kubota refused to change his kerosene-soaked clothes at the police station and asked to smoke during questioning, according to the Yomiuri Shimbun and other Japanese media.

Despite no-smoking rules in the building, a police official gave him a pack of cigarettes and a lighter. When Mr Kubota stood up, his right knee was ablaze and he quickly turned into a fireball, the reports said.

The police spokesman declined to give further details, but said Mr Kubota was rushed to hospital where he died on Sunday due to burns over a wide area of his body.

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