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By Express News ServiceTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a suspected case of suicide, an apparently middle-aged man, reportedly mentally challenged, set himself ablaze on a public road at Kariyavattom here on Saturday. According to police, the eye-witnesses saw a burning man running towards the main road from a sub-road. The incident took place around 6.45 pm. Some of them saw him buying petrol from a nearby petrol bunk today. P V Baby, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Cybercity, Kazhakoottam, said a preliminary probe revealed he had committed suicide..