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Mobile phone catches fire

Published On : 14 Jun 2017   |  Reported By : Canaranews Network   |  Pic On: Photo credit : The Hindu


Udupi: A youth, who was on the way to the Indrali railway station in Udupi, escaped narrowly from serious injury, after his mobilecaught fire spontaneously on Tuesday. Manjunath, who runs a general store at Katapadi, had kept his mobile telephone in the pocket of his trousers and was riding his motorcycle with his wife on the pillion.

He began feeling heat in his pocket and spotted smoke. An alert Manjunath stopped his motorcycle and threw away the mobile phone which later went up in flames. It's battery was burnt. The front portion was intact, but the back portion had got burnt.

He had purchased the mobile telephone about 15 months ago. The entire mobile telephone would have got burnt, but people around stamped it to check the fire from spreading and removed the SIM card thus saving it.







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