Afghan man with knife sets himself alight at German supermarket warehouse

The man poured gasoline over himself and set himself ablaze early Monday in Gaimersheim, a town between Nuremberg and Munich.

A 19-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker suffered serious burns after setting himself on fire at a supermarket warehouse in Bavaria, German police said.

A police car stands near the Market Church in Hannover, Germany. (AP file photo)

Police said that the man poured gasoline over himself and set himself ablaze early Monday in Gaimersheim, a town between Nuremberg and Munich. He had bought the gasoline shortly before at a filling station.

The blaze was extinguished swiftly by other people at the scene, but the man was seriously injured.

The man’s motives weren’t immediately clear. Police say he was carrying a knife but didn’t use it.