Social Affairs
31-year-old woman burnt to death at temple in Seoul
Dec. 29, 2016
A woman with a history of mental illness burned herself to death at a Buddhist temple in Seoul on Thursday, with the reasons behind the apparent suicide yet to be known, police said. The 31-year-old woman, only identified by her family name Kim, poured flammable materials onto her body and set herself on fire with a lighter at the Bongeun Temple in southern Seoul, police officers said. The woman died before an ambulance arrived at the site, they said.She reportedly had megalomania, a mental ill