Refugee advocates have gathered to protest the death of a 23-year-old Tamil asylum seeker who died after setting himself on fire in Melbourne’s south-east.
Friends of Mano Yogalingam told the ABC he had arrived in Australia from Sri Lanka in 2013 and had been on a bridging visa for roughly 11 years.
A Victoria Police spokesperson said emergency services were called to a skate park in Noble Park on Tuesday night.
Friends of Mano Yogalingam told the ABC he had arrived in Australia from Sri Lanka in 2013 and had been on a bridging visa for roughly 11 years.
A Victoria Police spokesperson said emergency services were called to a skate park in Noble Park on Tuesday night.
A man with life-threatening injuries was taken to hospital, where he died on Wednesday, they said.
The Tamil Refugee Council said it believed the time Mr Yogalingam had spent on a bridging visa had been a contributing factor to his death.
A council spokesperson told the ABC Mr Yogalingam’s claim for refugee status was previously rejected under the controversial “fast-track” system introduced in 2014, an outcome he had been seeking to appeal.
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