A local court in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Monday sentenced a Tibetan lama to 11 years in prison for intentional homicide over another monk's self-immolation death. According to the verdict from the Maerkang County People's Court in Aba, the monk, Drongdru was given the sentence as he hid the injured monk and prevented emergency treatment causing the 16-year-old's death due to belated treatment. Phuntsog, a disciple of the monk set himself on fire on March 16 and was hidden for 11 hours and then died next morning after treatments failed at a local hospital. Drongdru pleaded guilty to the murder charge.