Syrian refugee set herself alight in Lebanon
BEIRUT - A Syrian woman has been hospitalized on Tuesday after setting herself on fire to protest difficult living conditions for refugees in Lebanon, Lebanese police said.
The woman set herself ablaze in front of the offices for a UN relief agency in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. She is in now stable condition at the city's Al-Salam hospital, police said.
Hospital officials identified the woman as Miriam Abdulkader, a mother of four from the Syrian city of Homs. She has lived in Tripoli for two years. (AP)
