A man carrying a gasoline can set himself on fire at a McDonald's restaurant in East Vancouver on Thursday night, prompting people to flee in panic. Police said the "distraught" man walked into the restaurant at Commercial Drive and East Broadway just after 9 p.m. PT. Vancouver police set evidence markers down outside the McDonald's restaurant on Commercial Drive near East 12 Avenue. "There was a man sitting outside the McDonald's … I noticed that he had a can of gasoline. Fire crews walk into the McDonalds on Commercial Drive on Thursday, after a man lit himself and the restaurant on fire.

Source: CBC News March 16, 2018 06:36 UTC