14-Year-Old Girl Dies in Sleep After Cellphone Explodes Near Her Head

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10/1/2019|Updated: 10/2/2019

A 14-year-old schoolgirl died in Kazakhstan after she went to sleep listening to music on her cellphone that was plugged into a socket for charging.

Alua Asetkyzy Abzalbek was asleep in her home in the village of Bastobe in the country’s southeast when the cellphone exploded due to its battery overheating, reported the Indo Asian News Service.

Venus Upadhayaya

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Venus Upadhayaya reports on India, China, and the Global South. Her traditional area of expertise is in Indian and South Asian geopolitics. Community media, sustainable development, and leadership remain her other areas of interest.

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