HYDERABAD, Dec 6: A 20-year-old youth died of burn injuries in the civil hospital on Tuesday. A-section police station SHO Rao Nazim said Waseem, son of Yaqoob, was a resident of Raja-Ki-Kothi area of Latif-abad-12.

On Monday night, he went to the bangles factory where he worked as a labour and sprinkled kerosene oil on his body in an attempt to commit suicide.

People of the locality took him to the Bhittai hospital but in view of his precarious condition, he was shifted to the civil hospital’s burns ward.

According to Dr Kishore Kumar of the civil hospital, he had suffered 95 per cent burns.

In his initial statement to the people who took him to the hospital, Waseem said he was committing self-immolation as he was not being allowed to marry a girl of his choice.

The SHO quoted his father as saying that the family was unaware that he was interested in marring some girl.