A 54-year-old woman tragically died after she was electrocuted by a new phone given to her by her husband.
Yooyen Saenprasert from Thailand was playing mobile games on the bed with the charger cable on her arm when she got electrocuted.
The tragic incident occurred at their home in Udon Thani province on May 6.
Yooyen’s husband, Praiwan Saenprasert, said that she loved playing games on her phone while relaxing in bed.
He left his wife in the evening to check their fishpond but when he returned, his wife was unresponsive with burn marks on her arms.
Emergency services arrived and tried to revive the wife but she is believed to have been dead for over four hours since her lifeless body was discovered.
Yooyen’s grieving husband said he bought the phone for his wife as a birthday gift only two days before the incident.
“My wife did not move up when I tried to wake her up. I knew there was something seriously wrong,” he expressed.
“We only had each other. We did not have a child. I bought that phone two days ago for her so I could not believe this happened.”
“She liked to play games on her smartphone in the evening. We did not know that it was dangerous,” he added.
Bruises were found on Yooyen’s right arm which were believed to have been sustained from the electric shock.
“We took the body to the police hospital for them to confirm the cause of death. The funeral will be organised by the family later,” said Lieutenant Colonel Mangkorn Chomkot.
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