Police: Man sets self on fire, jumps from overpass

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — A man is hospitalized after police say he set himself and various items on fire before jumping from an Interstate 64 overpass in southwestern Illinois.

Police in East St. Louis say the man survived the jump Thursday morning onto a grassy strip at the approach to a Mississippi River bridge and was standing as emergency crews worked to get him to the hospital.

His medical condition was not immediately available.

Police Detective Michael Floore tells the Belleville News-Democrat that most of the man’s body appeared to be burned.

The man was not immediately identified.