Chinese teen dies after charging phone electrocutes her while she slept
Posted by Unknown on Friday, August 1, 2014 | 0 comments
A teenager was electrocuted and died in her sleep while she was charging her phone.
The 18-year-old, who has not been named, died in Xinjiang, on July 24.
The deceased’s sister said she smelt burning when she returned to their home and found her sister lying dead in her bedroom with burns across her body. A broken phone was next to her.
It is not clear if the woman was using an authentic charger, or a cheap counterfeit version which have been linked to other fatalities.
Experts from the Forensic Science Association of China said the teenager had livor mortis across her neck, hands and leg, and concluded that she’d died from electrocution, the Shanghaiist reported.
The teeanger’s sister said online that the phone had been purchased in Urumqi and the retailer was now discussing compensating the family.
In July last year Air Stewardess Ma Ailun, 23, was killed by an electric shock when she answered a call on her phone while it was recharging on a knock-off charger.
