A man has died after setting himself on fire in Egypt’s northern port city of Alexandria.
Officials say the 25-year-old unemployed man – Ahmed Hashem el-Sayed, who had suffered third-degree burns – died in hospital.
Earlier on Tuesday, another man set himself on fire in the capital, Cairo.
They are the latest such acts in Egypt and the wider North African region, one of which led to the mass protests which toppled the Tunisian government.
The AFP news agency said the man who died in Alexandria had been suffering from depression.
An Egyptian security official said the man who set himself on fire in Cairo was a 40-year-old lawyer called Mohamed Farouk Hassan, Reuters news agency reported.
It quoted an unnamed source as saying he shouted slogans against rising prices before setting himself alight.
AFP quoted an official as saying the man was slightly injured and taken to hospital.
It said police had also arrested a man who was carrying jerry cans of petrol near parliament in Cairo, on the presumption that he was going to set himself on fire.