Chinese student’s Samsung phone explodes, setting bed on fire

Photos of a university student’s badly burnt Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge smartphone have caused a stir on Chinese social media after she shared them online, saying the device exploded while she was charging it.

The student from the Henan North China Water Conservancy and Hydropower University in Zhengzhou, central Henan province, said she left the phone charging on her bed in her dormitory on Saturday night, the Beijing Youth Daily reported.

The device, which she said she owned for less than half a year, blew up around 6am and her bedsheets caught fire, according to the report.

The smoke from the explosion filled her dorm, the student said.

She shared photos of the exploded smartphone and her burnt bedsheets on her Weibo account, tagging multiple official Samsung Weibo accounts in her post, asking for advice on how she should handle the damaged device.

Her post was widely circulated by other Chinese internet users and the hashtag that translates as #SamsungS7AlsoSelfExplodes has been viewed 1.5 million times on Sina Weibo, China’s answer to Twitter.