Teenager badly hurt after he sets himself on fire

A TEENAGER suffered severe burns after setting himself alight.

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09:30, 9 OCT 2011
Updated22:43, 11 JUL 2013

A TEENAGER suffered severe burns after setting himself alight.

The 17-year-old set fire to himself at Partridge Crescent in Thornhill in Dewsbury around 9.50am on Saturday.

Paramedics treated the young man at the scene before taking him to Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield.

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