Exploding Samsung smartphone injures five-year-old girl in China
Family had left Galaxy Note 4 charging beside them overnight while they slept in the same bed
A Samsung that was left charging overnight exploded and injured the face of a five-year old girl.
Feng Lingling from Anshun city in Guizhou province was charging his Samsung Note 4 smartphone on the bedside while his wife and daughter slept on each side of him last Thursday night.
At 4am a loud bang woke them up. The explosion burned Feng’s hair and the hands and face of his daughter, who was sleeping closest to the phone at that time, according to the daily Guizhou Dushi Bao.
The girl is unable to eat or speak due to the burns and may have permanent scars.
“This is too pathetic,” Feng’s wife said. She said her daughter had trouble sleeping due to the pain.
South Korean electronics giant Samsung announced a worldwide recall of its Galaxy Note 7 last October after there were reports of the phone’s battery overheating and exploding. Earlier this month, a photo of a badly burnt Galaxy S7 Edge smartphone posted by a university student from Henan province went viral online.