Exploding mobile phone tragic death in India
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A man has
been killed in India
after the mobile phone
he was using exploded,
Sky News reports
August 18th, 2010.
The victim,
named as 23-year-old Gopal Gujjar,
suffered serious injuries
to his right ear,
neck and shoulders.
There were no
witnesses to the incident –
but it was assumed he was
talking on his Nokia when the
blast happened in the northern
state of Rajasthan.
His body was found along
with the remains of the phone
and battery near his farm
in Banda village, Kota,
reported the Times of India.
Police believe he was killed
by the device after discovering
pieces of the Nokia 1209 handset,
a basic model released
in August 2008,
scattered nearby.
The victim had gone into
a forest to tend to his grazing
cattle around noon and his body
was recovered later that night.
The Times of India said it was
probably the first incident in
the country where a mobile
phone had exploded while it
was not being charged.
In January this year,
a 27-year-old housewife in
Kadapa was killed while she
was talking to her husband
using a Chinese-made mobile
and charging it at the same time.
Deaths due to mobile phone
explosions have been reported
in countries such as China,
South Korea and Nepal.
However,
the South Korean incident
was later exposed as a hoax.
Sky News Online was waiting
a response from Nokia to news
of the reported death.
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