Chinese Man Killed By Exploding Cell Phone
A 20-something shop assistant from Guangzhou, China was killed when his cellphone’s newly-installed battery exploded, tearing his carotid artery.
This is the ninth such incident in China since 2002. Motorola and Nokia, two of the world’s biggest cell phone makers, have in the past distanced themselves from distributors of problem batteries in China, suggesting they were counterfeit.
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