A Tibetan monk set himself on fire and died Wednesday in protest against Chinese rule.Twenty-year-old Lobsang Sherab shouted slogans against the Chinese government as he self-immolated in Cha township in the Ngaba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.The self-immolation occurred at 7.10 p.m.along the main road in the township.He died on the spot.The Tibetans who were in the area tried to take his body away, but the Chinese security forces intervened, prevented them from doing so, and took the body, much to the anger of the Tibetans.The Chinese security forces also ordered shops at the township to close following the self-immolation, apparently as a precautionary move.

Sherab was from the Kirti monastery in Ngaba, from which hundreds of monks were taken away by Chinese security forces after a monk from the institution self-immolated in March last year, triggering an unstoppable wave of burning protests.

Sherab went back to his Raruwa village in Ngaba county two days earlier apparently to prepare himself for the self-immolation.