Tibetan nun dies in self-immolation

A Tibetan child holds a portrait of a Tibetan monk who killed himself through self-immolation, during a tribute session at the Tibetan Refugee Center in Lalitpur
A Tibetan child holds a portrait of Tibetan monk Phuntsog who killed himself through self-immolation, during a tribute session at the Tibetan Refugee Center in Lalitpur October 11, 2011. Phuntsog was one of the men in ethnically Tibetan parts of China's southwestern Sichuan province who have set themselves on fire since March in opposition to religious controls by Beijing, which labels their exiled spiritual leader a violent separatist. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) (REUTERS)

A Buddhist nun died after setting herself on fire Nov. 3 in the 11th case of self-immolation among Tibetans in western China in recent months.