Moroccan protester sets fire to himself

A door-to-door salesman is receiving medical treatment after setting himself on fire in a public prosecutor's office, local media has reported.

The protester's identity has yet to be revealed, but it is known he was frustrated at the judiciary's alleged inaction on a complaint he had filed in the southern city of Agadir, over a simple vehicle collision.

Suffering second-degree burns, he was taken to hospital with a police escort, reported Lakome 2, a Moroccan news website.

He will face questioning to determine whether he should face legal action.

His actions will bring to mind the fatal protest of young Tunisian fruit-seller Mohamed Bouazizi, who set himself alight in December 2010 and died a month later, sparking a revolution in his country and the 2011 Arab Spring.

In 2013, a door-to-door salesman in Marrakech, in central of Morocco - a country where the World Bank says one in three young people are jobless - died after setting himself on fire to protest against the confiscation of his merchandise.