Fifth Tibetan in a week dies from self-immolation Tibetan exiles pray as they participate in a Flame of Truth march seeking intervention from the United Nations to press the Chinese government to end its repression in Tibet Photograph: Manish Swarup/AP A 23-year-old man has become the fifth Tibetan in a week to set himself on fire and die in a county in far western China to protest against Chinese rule, a rights group said on Saturday. Tsewang Kyab set himself on fire on Friday evening on the main street of Amuquhu town in Xiahe county, London-based Free Tibet said. Earlier Friday, a 24-year-old Tibetan farmer, Lhamo Tseten, died from self-immolation near a military base and a government office in Amuquhu, the group said. China's official Xinhua News Agency reported the self-immolation of a Tibetan man by the same name, though details were slightly different. Xinhua said that Lhamo Tseten was a 23-year-old villager and that he set himself on fire near a hospital. Calls to local governments in both Xiahe and the higher administration Gannan prefecture rang unanswered on Saturday. In the past week in Xiahe, which is in Gansu province, a herdsman, a farmer and a man in his late 20s also died after setting themselves on fire. Xiahe is home to Labrang Monastery, which is one of the most important outside of Tibet and was the site of numerous protests by monks following deadly ethnic violence in Tibet in 2008 that was the most sustained Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule in decades. Police in the region are offering tipsters a reward of $7,700 (£4,700) for information about planned self-immolations in a bid to stem the tide of protests. The protests are coming at a sensitive time, with China's Community Party planning a once-in-a-decade power transfer in less than two weeks in Beijing.