By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 15 Oct: Dhundup Gyalpo, the Dalai Lama’s representative in South Africa, said he narrowly escaped death after petrol bombs set his residence and office ablaze on Wednesday night, marking the second such attack on the property in just over three months, the Daily Maverick reported.

The attack occurred at around 11.15 p.m. on 14 October at the property in Lyttelton Manor, Centurion, where petrol bombs were thrown through the windows, according to the report.

Gyalpo said he woke to the sound of shattering glass in another room. When he opened his bedroom door, he found the house filled with dense smoke. Trapped inside, he shut the door, smashed his bedroom window and climbed out to safety.

“I nearly lost my life from smoke inhalation last night. I somehow managed to break the window and get out,” Gyalpo told the Daily Maverick on Thursday morning. He sustained mino...