Special Branch police are investigating the background of the male foreigner who set himself on fire in front of the Iranian embassy in Bangkok on Friday.
Police found a note left in front of the embassy by the man which reads “don’t vote” in English and Arabic.
Quoting eyewitnesses, police said that the man stood in front of the Iranian embassy and then shouted in Arabic language before he doused himself with gasoline that he brought with him and set himself alight with a lighter.
Iran is preparing for an election but it is not known whether the election was the motive for the man to inflict harm on himself.