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EXPLODING BATTERIES AND BATTERIES THAT CATCH FIRE WHILE BEING CHARGED ARE STILL UNCOMMON BUT YOU WOULDN’T WANT IT TO HAPPEN TO YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE….
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NEVER USE YOUR MOBILE PHONE WHILE IT IS BEING CHARGED. NEVER EVER ALLOW YOUR KID TO USE IT WHEN IT IS BEING CHARGED! (Close supervision is essential.)
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15 June 2018
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The StarVerified account @staronline 7 hours ago
Cradle’s Nazrin killed by shrapnel from handphone explosion http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/06/15/cradles-nazrin-killed-by-shrapnel-from-handphone-explosion/ …
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malaysiakini.comVerified account @malaysiakini
CEO died from handphone explosion, says Cradle
Cradle Fund Shd Bhd Group CEO Nazri Hassan died from injuries sustained when one of his handphones exploded next to him as it was being charged, his company said.
In a statement, the company stated that a post-mortem attributed the cause of death to complications which resulted from “blast injuries attributable to an exploding handphone that was being charged next to him.”
“Speculation on the cause of his death is completely unnecessary and unacceptable at this time.
“We request for everyone to respect the privacy of the family during this time of grief. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and all those he touched on his journey,” the statement read.
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Meanwhile, according to a Bernama report, a message from the family had been circulating on social media.
It quoted Nazrin’s brother-in-law as claiming that Nazrin’s phone had overheated and exploded causing a blunt trauma to the back of Nazrin’s head.
“He had two phones. We don’t know which one exploded. Who would have thought such an innocuous routine procedure is the reason three young kids will grow up without their father by their side,” the message had said. The brother-in-law was not named.
The social media message had also advised people to be more careful when charging their mobile phones.
“Better yet, not in the bedroom. It’s worth the inconvenience of not having your mobile a hand’s reach away,” said the message.
https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/429920
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Edward+Chow+For+Mailonline
Boy, 12, has chunk of flesh blown from his FACE after his mobile phone explodes while charging
Boy has part of his face blown off after his mobile phone explodes http://dailym.ai/1NjZ1FV
A 12-year-old in central China was seriously injured when his phone exploded while it was charging.
The boy, known only as Hanghang, was using the old handset as an alarm when he woke up early for school and started to play with it.
He said the phone felt hot and then blew up in his face, exposing part of his jawbone and embedding fragments in his arms and legs.
‘I played with the phone for a few minutes,’ he said.
‘The phone felt hot then it suddenly exploded and all I could see were my hands covered in blood and blood dripping from my face.
‘I used a towel to stem the blood and washed my hands under the tap then I called the ambulance.’
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Hanghang said he could not be sure of the type of phone as it was one of several old phones.
He said: ‘It was the battery that exploded. I have heard my classmates talk about this happening but I never thought it would happen to me.’
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Shocking footage shows mobile phone exploding into fireball without warning in Thai bank http://bit.ly/1FKDxOW
You might want to be careful with your mobile phone after watching this video.
Shocking CCTV footage shows a mobile phone bursting into flames suddenly in a bank in Suphanburi, Thailand.
A small fireball could be seen in the video when the phone exploded.
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This is the alarming moment a girl’s mobile phone EXPLODES on a bus while charging before catching fire.
Video: Bus Passenger´s Mobile Phone Battery Explodes in hands, China | Bursts into Flames in Woman´s Face
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CCTV reveals the moment a passenger’s mobile phone EXPLODES in her hands as she tries to change the battery while on a bus in China
A bright light flashes as the phone explodes and the woman quickly jumps to her feet carrying the phone
Remarkable CCTV footage shows a woman in China running off a bus while holding a flaming mobile phone after it appears to explode in her hands.
The woman, sitting near the front of a bus in south west China’s Sichuan province, is seen attempting to change the battery in her handset when there is a bright flash of light.
Immediately, the undated footage show the woman standing and running toward the door of the bus carrying the burning phone.
As soon as the fire broke out the woman’s fellow passengers behind and in front of her also fled the lower level of the bus, soon followed by the driver.
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IT IS ALSO DANGEROUS TO BE TOO ENGROSSED IN TALKING ON YOUR HAND PHONE!
In Penang, this 16 year old was so engrossed in using his mobile phone that he slipped on water and fell! Over the balcony and down FROM THE SIXTH FLOOR!
Luckily, he hit the roof of a car park. He broke a leg and hurt his neck but can be thankful that he is alive!
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（檳城13日訊）講電話講到滑倒，結果失足墜樓！http://www.chinapress.com.my/node/560417
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The Real Singapore
MOTHER LEFT SCARRED FOR LIFE AFTER CHARGING IPHONE SCORCHED HER AS SHE SLEPT
Sleeping with your mobile charging beside you isn’t uncommon but for one young mother, keeping her iPhone close at hand has had painful consequences.
Dionne Baxter, 24, fell asleep lying across her charging iPhone 4 but woke up in agony the next day with a five inch burn on her breast.
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‘I sleep in the nude and this large red mark was all down one side to the nipple,’ Ms Baxter revealed in an interview with the Sun newspaper.
‘When I touched the phone, it was so hot, I couldn’t pick it up.’
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YAHOO! TECH
Daniel BeanEditorial Assistant
Aug 4, 2014
Don’t want your phone to blow up? Follow these 6 pieces of expert advice
Recently, a young girl’s Samsung Galaxy smartphone burned near her head as she slept. Her phone was ruined, but the fire didn’t spread beyond the underside of her pillow, so she and her family were not harmed. Of course, not all chargeable electronics fires end without injury.
1. Stay away from low-quality batteries. One of the potential issues pointed out with the Samsung Galaxy S4 that caught fire in Texas was that the phone’s battery was swapped for an aftermarket model.
2. Keep your phone in a well-ventilated place while charging. The second no-no with the Texas case: The charging phone was under a pillow. Our experts’ advice: “Do not cover a charging phone with a pillow.”
3. If you get your phone wet, have it checked by a professional.
4. Don’t overuse your phone while it’s charging. Juicing up draws a great amount of heat to your phone, making it plenty hotter than it is during normal use.
5. If your phone takes a nasty drop, don’t just dust it off and move on…Some possible problems caused by a nasty drop: a small crack in an internal component, a damaged or split battery, or exposed internals via a cracked display.
6. If you notice any overheating or sudden battery drain, you may have a problem.
Don’t Want Your Phone to Blow Up? Follow These … – Yahoo
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International NEWS site
Xinjiang 18 -year-old girl when charging the phone died due to leakage of electric shock
According to Asian Heart Network news just past 18th birthday girl Midong Urumqi, Xinjiang Wu Wenyuan , a rented room in Korla suspected leakage due to electric shock killed the phone , the police have been involved in the investigation .
July 27 at noon ,aunt Ms. Lu told reporters ,in the mainland to study, just past 18th birthday a few days , Wu Wenyuan there is a sister city to work in Korla .
Ms. Lu said Wu Wenyuan summer home , in order to reduce the burden on the family, where her sister came to Korla to work, because my sister was to learn to drive back to Urumqi .
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According to forensic autopsy submissions Korla City Public Security Bureau of Criminal Science and Technology Room Show: autopsy findings deceased neck , hands and left foot current spot , combined with a comprehensive analysis of the case and the situation somobile phone leakage electric shock death.
Xinjiang 18 –year–old girl when charging the phone died due …
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Published on Jul 24, 2014
A 13-year-old North Texas girl was awoken in the night by a smoldering cell phone on the other side of her pillow, but the cell phone manufacturer says she did something they warn users about.
13yr old girl slept through the night while her cell phone smoldered under her pillow.. The phone manufacturer points to a warning you probably never read..
WATCH: http://bit.ly/1okDMG3 — with Steve Noviell
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Video: On Your Side: Samsung phone fire
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MailOnline
Thursday, Jul 3rd 2014
Woman, 72, hospitalized for chemical burns after her Dell laptop explodes
A 72-year-old woman got a shocker Sunday when her Dell laptop exploded on her while sitting at her desk .
Loretta Luff of Langhorne Manor, Pennsylvania says she was in the middle washing of loads of laundry when she sat down at her living room desk to check emails and play spider solitaire on the 6-year-old laptop, a gift from her daughter.
Unexpectedly, the laptop blew backwards and send battery acid flying as far as six to eight feet away.
‘The next thing I knew, my shirt was on fire, I grabbed that and took that off and I think that’s when I singed my hair,’ Mrs Luff told CBS Philly.
When she got up, Mrs Luff stepped on a mini fire that started, burning her foot.
Mrs Luff was able to douse the patches of flames erupting all over the carpet with water from her toy poodles’ dog bowl, and responding firefighters put out the rest of the hot spots.
Mrs Luff was taken to the hospital where she was treated for first- and second-degree chemical burns to her face, arm and foot. She was released later that night.
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People should also not use any electrical devices while they are plugged in and charging.
The Real Singapore
THIS IS THE YOUNG WOMAN WHO WAS ELECTROCUTED BY HER FAULTY USB CHARGER.
Sheryl Aldeguer was a married mother of two. Photo: Facebook
Sheryl Aldeguer left behind two young children and a husband when she was electrocuted by a faulty USB phone charger in her rented room in Gosford in April.
The 28-year-old, from the Philippines, was to start work as a theatre nurse at Gosford Hospital within days of her death.
Authorities used Ms Aldeguer’s death to warn consumers against buying rip-off USB-style chargers. The young woman was wearing headphones and holding her laptop when she was found dead with burns on her ears and chest, in an apparent electrocution.
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NSW Fair Trading Commissioner Rod Stowe said a number of USB-style chargers, travel adaptors and power boards that did not meet Australian safety standards had been removed from sale at a mobile phone accessory stall in Campsie, in Sydney’s south-west, following the death.
The Campsie trader faces fines of up to $87,500 and/or two years’ imprisonment. A corporation can be fined up to $875,000.
Mr Stowe said the rip-off, cheap chargers were low quality plastic that could melt.
The devices found by Fair Trading had no insulation on pins or approval marks.
In a statement, Fair Trading said electrical products sold in NSW had to comply with the Electricity (Consumer Safety) Act to ensure they met Australian Standards.
Consumers who have already bought unapproved and non-compliant USB-style chargers, used to charge phones and tablets, are advised to bend the pins on the chargers and throw them away immediately.
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The woman’s death is the only known fatality in Australia potentially linked with the chargers, but a report from China in 2013 suggested a woman was electrocuted while making a call on a phone that was charging.
Ideally people should avoid using their mobile phones while the devices were charging, but in any case they should avoid non-approved chargers.
27 June 2014
YAHOO! NEWS SINGAPORE
Woman dies in Australia using cheap USB-style charger
AFP News
Australian authorities issued a warning about cheap, non-compliant USB-style chargers Friday after a young woman died from apparent electrocution while using a laptop and possibly a smart phone.
The 28-year-old was found wearing headphones and with her computer in her lap with burns on her chest and ears at a home in Gosford, north of Sydney, in April.
Police are still investigating the circumstances of the death but the Department of Fair Trading, which has assisted with the case, suggested a sub-standard mobile phone charger could be to blame.
The woman, whom reports said was from the Philippines but had recently become an Australian citizen, had headphones plugged into her laptop, which was connected to a power socket to charge.
“The phone was also plugged into a USB-style charger. That charger had failed,” Lynelle Collins from the New South Wales Department of Fair Trading told AFP.
“Somehow power from that charger has connected to her body. Whether she had it (the phone) to her ear or was holding it in her hand, we don’t know.”
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Fair Trading said it had removed a number of unapproved and non-compliant USB-style chargers, travel adaptors and power boards from sale in Sydney after the death.
They said the devices did not meet essential safety requirements and were often made of inferior plastics and other insulation materials.
“These devices pose a serious risk of electrocution or fire,” Fair Trading commissioner Rod Stowe said in a statement.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/woman-dies-australia-using-cheap-usb-style-charger-051101169.html
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Duan Ran, 23, who works at electronics store Smart Tab, told Wanbao that both the mobile phone and the powerbank heat up when the phone is being charged, so if they are in a sealed environment and the heat cannot escape, the device may combust.
Handphone battery pack bursts into flames on MRT, panicking commuters
My Paper
Jun 24, 2014
A powerbank, used to charge mobile phones on the go, burst into flames on a train and caused panic among commuters on Sunday afternoon.
Passengers who were on the train told Lianhe Wanbao that people ran from the fire, causing others to flee, even though they did not know what the cause was.
At around 2pm on Sunday, on the East-West Line going towards Pasir Ris, smoke poured out of one of the carriages as the train passed Tiong Bahru Station.
The powerbank in one of the passengers’ bags caught fire, and emitted smoke, an SMRT spokesman said. Some burn marks were left on the floor of the carriage.
Passengers in the carriage left the train car holding their hands over their noses.
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A number of witnesses recounted what happened on microblogging site Weibo.
“Smoke was coming out of the bag of the person beside me, and the heat burnt a hole in his bag.
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這起事故發生在昨午2時半左右，在地鐵東西線往巴西立方向的列車。列車過了中峇魯站後，前方一節車廂突然濃煙四溢，乘客們趕緊捂著鼻子，往後方車廂逃去。
地鐵公司稱，一名乘客的便攜充電器（Power Bank）在列車上冒煙，並導致車廂的地板有燒焦的痕跡，但沒有乘客受傷。詳細報導翻閱今晚／明日《中國報》
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