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Guatemalan migrant arrested for setting sleeping NYC subway rider on fire, watching her burn to death: cops
The savage killing happened at about 7:30 a.m. Sunday on an idling F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station.
nypost.com
Aside from the fact she was, in fact, set on fire by an illegal (I mean, undocumented traveler) from Guatemala, who watched her burn and fanned the flame to make it last longer, there is that weird formulation by the media to describe the event.
According to them "she caught fire", which means she was minding her own business when suddenly she spontaneously combusted.
*poof*
Just like that.
Another instance of sanitized headlines is the attack that occurred in Germany described as being caused by a car that drove into a crowd.
Formulation that was also used to describe the Waukesha parade massacre.