Asylum Seeker Who Set Himself Alight Flown to Australia for Medical Treatment

A beach view in Ewa on the Pacific island of Nauru where asylum seekers are housed as part of Australia's offshore processing policy on Sept. 2, 2018. MIKE LEYRAL/AFP/Getty Images

A Pakistani man who set himself on fire while in an asylum detention centre on Nauru is in intensive care at a Queensland hospital, advocates say.

The man, known as Jamal, 36, was flown to Brisbane from the remote Micronesian island on Saturday after harming himself on Friday while inside his room speaking to a mental health professional, SBS News reported.