Minor boy killed after mobile phone’s battery explodes

A 12-year-old boy was killed in an incident, when battery of a smartphone exploded in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday.

Unlike some incidents in the past, the victim is only 12 year old. This is not for the time that an incident like this one has been reported.

Police said, the smartphone that the 12-year old owned was put on charge and that is when the battery of the phone suddenly exploded. The boy was a resident of Likhedi village that is around 10 km away Badnawar town in Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh. Lakhan Singar, the victim of the explosion, had put his smartphone on charge and soon after the battery exploded and killed him, said police.