BEIJING: A Tibetan woman died on Tuesday after setting herself on fire in protest at China's rule of the Himalayan region, rights groups and media said.

Tsepe Kyi set herself alight in the centre of a town in Aba county, known in Tibetan as Ngaba county, in southwest Sichuan province, Free Tibet and US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA) said.

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