She drowned in the bath after being electrocuted when she dropped her phone in the water
A school girl has died after being electrocuted when she dropped her mobile phone into the bath while charging it.
Yulia Vysotskaya, 14, suffered an electric shock and then drowned in at her home in Cheboksary, Russia, medical sources say.Yulia Vysotskaya drowned in the bath after being electrocuted when she dropped her phone in the water It is the third incident of its kind in the country in the last year, despite repeated warnings including one official calling it a ‘Russian roulette’.
In December martial arts champion Irina Rybnikova, 15, died instantly when using her iPhone plugged into a charger while in the bath at her home in Bratsk, Siberia.AdvertisementShe went into the bathroom and found the girl ‘already dead with her head under the water’.Electronics engineer Andrey Stanovsky has warned that ‘relaxing in a bathroom with your mobile phone plugged is like playing Russian roulette’.
After Irina’s death, Yury Agrafonov, the head of radio-electronic department of Irkutsk State University, said: ‘Water is a good conductor. This is why there was a short circuit when the phone fell into the water.Advertisement
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