Teenager sets himself ablaze because he fails school exam
An Algerian teenager set himself on fire in front of horrified high school classmates after failing final exams and not being allowed to repeat his senior year, a report said Tuesday. The 19-year-old was in critical condition at a hospital in the western town of Oran after the incident that unfolded at the Souiyah El Houarihigh school on Monday, the French-language Quotidien d’Oran reported. The teen doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire with a lighter outside the teachers