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In yet another instance of a smartphone catching fire, an eight-year-old girl in Kerala died when the mobile phone she was using allegedly exploded while she was watching a video, as per the police. This incident comes after a boy in Baduan, Uttar Pradesh, reportedly died due to an electric shock while his phone was charging, last week. A couple of months ago, a man in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain district died after the battery of his mobile phone allegedly exploded in yet another smartphone-related-casualty.
Going into details, Adithyasree, a resident of Kerala's Thiruvilvamala was using the phone at night at around 10:30 PM on Monday when the phone exploded in her face, the police told news agency PTI. Adithyasree was a student in class 3 at the local school. The police have registered a case and a probe is currently on.
However, smartphone buyers need to be educated about the consequences that might happen because of any unauthorised third-party repairs that might cause heating and lead to explosions of mobile phones. Buyers shouldn't fiddle with the internals of a phone and neither should they take it for repair to third-party centres.