A phone exploded and killed a man who was sleeping next to it, the story again bringing into discussion the great danger of the batteries in the mobile phones that we use every day. Nazrin Hassan, is the former president of a company owned by the Ministry of Finance in Malaysia, he was sleeping next to two Blackberry and Huawei smartphones, one of them exploding while it was charging and killing him in his sleep.
One of the two phones was charging while the man was sleeping, but it is not known which one exploded due to overheating, that explosion killing the man, although the mattress caught fire as a result of the explosion. According to the man's family, the exploding phone threw pieces of the case, or screen, towards the man's head, and this was the cause of death, the fire that broke out afterwards having no effect on the man who was left breathless.
A Phone EXPLODED and KILLED a Man
The police say that the man died from smoke inhalation following the fire caused by the exploding phone battery, and this cause of death seems very more plausible. It is very hard to believe that the explosion of a phone's battery can generate such a great force that pieces of the case, or screen, pierce any area where a major vein is located, or even the scalp, so that a person is effectively killed.
"A message from the family that has been circulating on social media quoted Nazrin's brother-in-law as claiming that at some point the phone had overheated and exploded, causing a blunt trauma at the back of Nazrin's head and caused his death . According to the police, Nazrin was trapped in a bedroom fire at his double-storey terrace house in Mutiara Damansara yesterday and probably died of smoke inhalation."
Blackberry and Huawei didn't really have problems with phones exploding due to overheating of the batteries, especially in the case of Canadians, where we are talking about phones that are made on the basis of very high quality standards. In general, exploding phone batteries can cause large fires, but this could be the first time a person has been killed by an explosion generated by a phone battery.