In the early hours of this morning, a man deliberately set himself on fire in the Cástulo petrol station in Linares.
The man, of Cuban origin, arrived at the service station at around 03:30 this morning and asked the attendant to fill an empty bottle with fuel. When the attendant explained that he couldn’t do it, the man took out solvent, doused himself and set fire to himself. The reasons for this peculiar behavious are not known at the moment.
The attendant put the man out using a fire extinguisher and then called the police. The Cuban was first taken to the local hospital in Linares but was later transferred to the Burns Unit of the Virgen del Rocío hospital in Sevilla where his injuries are described as ‘severe’.