Fujian woman fatally electrocuted while charging iPhone 6
Staff Reporter
2015-06-18
A visitor tries out a iPhone 6 at a store in Chongqing. (Photo/Xinhua)
A woman in Jinjiang in China's southeast Fujian province is believed to have been fatally electrocuted when charging an iPhone 6 smartphone with a iPad charger, reports the online news portal of Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po.
The 24-year-old woman was found on the floor in the house of her boyfriend's mother on June 9. Her feet were charred black and her hands were scarred, characteristic of a powerful electric shock. The charger had turned black.
The smartphone and charger were sent back to Apple for further examination.
Local police said the cause of death cannot be confirmed until the authorities receive the family's consent to conduct an autopsy, the report said.
This is not the first case of sporadic and sometimes fatal injuries involving Apple devices in China. In July 2013, a man in Beijing ended up in a coma after being electrocuted while charging his iPhone 4. In the same month, a 23-year-old flight attendant from Xinjiang died after receiving an electric shock while talking on her iPhone 4. In July 2014, an 18-year-old woman also from Xinjiang was confirmed to have died in her sleep while charging her iPhone 4S on her bed.
The victims in the three incidents all used chargers not manufactured by Apple.
