RFA’s Tibetan Service reported on May 6, 2016, that Sonam Tso, believed to have been in her 50s, self-immolated on March 23 near a monastery in Dzoege (in Chinese, Ruo’ergai) county in the Ngaba (Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province. A Tibetan mother of five, her self-immolation was the second such protest in a Tibetan area of China this year. She was believed to have self-immolated on March 23, but reports of her protest were initially delayed  due to communications clampdowns imposed by Chinese authorities in the area.