Terrifying moment brave cops desperately fight to put out flames after man sets himself on fire in front of onlookers

THIS is the terrifying moment police desperately fought to put out flames on a man after he set himself on fire in the street yesterday.

Video shared on X shows a man in a high visibility waistcoat spraying the man, who is engulfed in flames and standing with his arms up, with a fire extinguisher, in Islington, north London.