Three people were killed on the ground when the 51-year-old plane went down near a newly built residential area, hitting a massage parlour and a small hotel.
Three people were killed on the ground when the 51-year-old plane went down near a newly built residential area, hitting a massage parlour and a small hotel.
After a month of delays in Japan and a last-minute false start last week, mission controllers declared Solar Impulse 2 had taken off from the central Japanese city of Nagoya.
Adverse natural conditions, human activities taking a heavy toll on it
The passenger poured an oil-like substance over his head before setting himself on fire, authorities said.
The attack took place near the US Embassy, during early afternoon prayers.
The students were issued arrest warrants for having conducted peaceful rallies in the capital.
A major rescue operation swung into action, with ambulances ferrying bodies from the accident site, and crowds of anxious residents gathering around a police cordon to get a look.
The attacker detonated a lorry loaded with explosives at the gate of the police headquarters in Lashkar Gah, the capital of volatile Helmand province.
Witnesses who fled fighting in Nangarhar province said that hundreds of insurgents pledging allegiance to Daesh pushed out the Taleban.
Official figures show 27,000 widows head households in Jaffna, where the conflict was centred, while local politicians put the figure much higher.