Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Chinese Youth Killed By Cell Phone Battery Blast

Beijing , July 03 (qna) -

"A 22-year-old Welder In North-western China Died When His Cell Phone Battery Exploded As He Was Working In Hot Temperatures, A Newspaper Reported Tuesday.

The Battery Exploded While The Phone Was In The Man's Pocket As He Was
Welding At A Factory In Shuangcheng In Jinta County In Gansu Province, The Lanzhou Chenbao Reported, Adding That The Death Was Believed To Be The First In China Caused By A Cell Phone Battery.

The Manufacturer Of The Phone Was Notified And Dispatched Experts To Jinta To Conduct An Investigation... but found no evidence of ethylene glycol contamination.

"The young mans, he liked nibble-nibble on dog biscuit we find," an unidentified official told the AP, "but not truth his cell phone contaminated with same stuff we send America..."

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