Man killed by cell phone explosion in China
It’s being reported that a man has died after putting a new battery in his phone. After the initial charging, he put the phone in his pocket and shortly thereafter it exploded, killing him. This is the ninth such explosion reported since 2002. The Chinese daily Shin Min Daily News reports the accident occurred on January 30 at 7:30pm local time at what may have been a Lenovo shop. A nearby employee heard a loud bang, looked over and saw her co-worker lying on the floor in a pool of blood.
While the make and model of cell phone is not yet known or not being reported, police are currently investigating whether or not the phone and/or battery were counterfeit. Authorities have issued warning tips that cell phones and batteries should not be tampered with or replaced with counterfeit parts. In 2007, a 22-yr old welder died from chest wounds when his mobile phone exploded while working at an iron mill. Authorities concluded in that case that the battery had been exposed to sparks and high heat in the iron mill.
Source: TG Daily
Comments(47)
Lol i have heart about this years ago,my phone is samsung(made in japan)it isnt china but should i scared?xd crazy technology
My is samsung too, i hope it won`t explode
C.I.A. practising for Bin Laden
samsung is not from japan! lol~
it's from korea!
dont buy counterfeit teach devices
asia will soon suffer more from this. this is made of there entire market
Theres no way in hell a little cell phone could pack a big enough punch to kill somebody. Maybe knock a piece of flesh off but not kill him. Theres got to be more to this story.
should we back to fix phones ? i think its more safer nowadays …
So much pigeon english.. so little time..
So, it's been nuked? I hope they'll releaSe a PROPER of that cellphone…
don't say stupid storyes…
It's true that a cell phone can explode, and in certain case can kill one person…
Those Cell Phones are manufactured usually by chinese, and are the copyies of official model of Nokia, Samsung, Iphone etc…
They do copy, bad copy, economic copy… explosive copy.
So, don't buy copy, don't buy ever copy of originals trademark (also for example t-shirt etc.. copyies of nike for ex. the cotton contain traces of toxic materials…)
!!! SO BEWARE CHINA COPYES PRODUCT !!!
Sounds like a fake story to discourage counterfeit products
Oh my god you guys are slow on news, this is old and the matter of fact is that the man did not die of a mobile explosion, he got shot by a homemade gun: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4522915/Man-killed-by-exploding-phone-shot-himself.html
And by the way people, Samsung is not Japanese its South Korean!
well, true or not… i only say, MYTHBUSTER… your next myth is here…:P
Im not worried, iPhones only get hot but ther's no reported case of one exploding…
Buying counterfeit goods does no harm, just like file sharing
KABOOOOM!!!!!!!
what are you on about counterfeit… it's just the risk you take if you carry any kind of potenially explosive battery in your pocket,… same with laptops so just be weary.
E.T phone ho… BOOM!!!!
damn phones !
leey say's "So, it's been nuked? I hope they'll releaSe a PROPER of that cellphone…"
YOU STPID DUMB SHT, THATS THE DUMBEST THING I HAVE HEARD, what is it with those stup!d people making stup!d remarks.
I wonder if that phone is partying it up with 72 virgins right now……?
i hope china will bomb the United terrorist of States
Great, now cellphones will be banned from airplanes also, what a stupid way to die…
Nothing to worry about here. It's just chinese government getting rid of someone they don't like.
Move along folks.
why is it so hard for some people to read -.-
kudos Dibonosas for finding the article from the telegraph
oops battery made of tnt
What t..f.!
made in china bro
@ nihil
"I wonder if that phone is partying it up with 72 virgins right now……?"
LooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooL
the little suicide focker …
Chinese *original* phone copies, connecting (dead)people ^^
I would say: Just buy an iPhone…
What all of you fukers are unaware of is that 99% of the ORIGINAL phones, yes including the Nokias & iPhones, as well as their ORIGINAL batteries also are actually manufactured, assembled & packaged in Asian factories (sweat shops) these days because of cheap labor.
It's in China, mostly likely it's not an official battery.
My counterfeit burned copy of GTA4 exploded in my xbox once. DO NOT BUY COPIES ONLY ORIGINALS!
Look at how fat the phone in that photo is, teaches the guy a lesson, using cell phones from 5 years ago!
@21 GSP
It's a joke – kinda proving your own dumbness :]
I bet the arabs rigged it
This is not true, the man was shot by a gun.
@38 whats your source?
From a Chinese journalist. He said the cop find the trace of bullets at the ceiling, but they are still trying to figure out how can a sales man has a gun.
a battery killed a hunman? I'm not stupid. If that true, the world is full of powerful bombs.
Lithium-Ion batteries ARE in fact like bombs. They only become safe if VERY carefully manufactured. Thus buying cheap Li-Ion batteries is like playing russian roulette. You never know if the next one kills you. My roomie is a chemist currently working on improving Li-Ion batteries and he told me there's very vew companies in the world skilled enough to build safe ones.
funny, i went to tgdaily.com to find the full article, and i see a great big google ad for chinese cell phones right on the front page.
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also, that picture looks more like a melted phone than one that exploded.
Just imagine it goes boom while you are phoning
Police have not said why Huang, 45, might have been carrying a home-made gun. from the very same link u provided idoit
this is a true story………i remember it also happened here in our country.
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