A man has claimed he suffered sever burns after a mobile phone exploded in his hands and set fire to his bedroom.
Grant Eger, 21, was texting his girlfriend when he heard a ticking noise coming from his Sony Xperia T3 phone.
Grant claims he then saw sparks flying from the side of the device before he dropped it on the floor and it set fire to his carpet.
The supermarket worker then threw the phone out of the window to prevent any further damage before rushing to hospital.
And after suffering severe burns to his right hand Grant spend eight hours in A&E waiting for treatment.
He said:
“I was just scrolling through my phone and as I was scrolling and texting back my girlfriend, I heard a little tick noise like something was going on in the phone.
“When I first started hearing them I didn’t know what they were. I just thought, ‘what the hell is it?’“The next thing I knew was a spark shot out the side. They were big so my instant reaction was to throw it.“I threw the phone to the side of my bed.“It just sparked even more and went up in flames.”Grant, of Newport, South Wales, said the fire died out after he threw the phone into his back garden.
He said: “The phone is all smashed at the front and at the back of it all you can see is the battery where it exploded. It’s all in pieces.
“It was so scary. I heard about things like that happening but when it happens to you it sort of opens your eyes to things like that.“I’ve been working with cars for years and had electric shocks but this is entirely different.
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