14-year-old Electrocuted and Dies after She Charged Her Phone

A teenager has tragically died after being electrocuted in her sleep when she rolled onto her iPhone charging cable.A 14-year-old girl reportedly died after being electrocuted while charging her iPhone 6.

Authorities believe she might’ve rolled over her already defective phone charger while she slept.

Le Thi Xoan was found unconscious by her parents and rushed to hospital where she was later pronounced dead, with electrocution being the official cause.



Police in Hanoi, Vietnam, found a burnt white cable on her bed and said a tear in the rubber casing may have caused the incident.Doctors were also able to confirm her cause of death was by electrocution.

Local police Chief Tran Anh Son said the girl's parents rushed her to a nearby hospital immediately after discovering her unconscious. Medics were unable to revive the teenager and pronounced her dead shortly after.



Many people’s lives revolve around their gadgets nowadays. But who can blame them? We can practically do anything and everything with our phones, and sometimes, losing them or forgetting about them at home can ruin our entire day. At the end of the day, our phones need charging, and for some, the best time to charge them is when we don’t need them: while we sleep.

A Vietnamese mom now regrets allowing her daughter to charge her phone overnight after the latter died of electrocution while sleeping. The mother woke up then 14-year-old Le Thi Xoan to get ready for school, but it struck her as odd when the teen didn’t respond for quite a while. The mother was in shock when she tried to wake her daughter up, but she didn’t respond.



The mother immediately brought her daughter to the hospital. However, doctors pronounced the teen dead as soon as they got there. To their shock, the parents were informed that their daughter had died from electrocution. Apparently, the teen slept beside her charging iPhone.

Authorities later discovered a burnt white cable with visible tears in the rubber casing. At least one of these tears left several live wires exposed. And since Apple accessories can be quite expensive, the victim simply used a tape to cover the exposed part and continued using it.



Though authorities are yet to determine the authenticity of the charger used, police noticed that the cable appeared to be shorter than the Apple’s original 0.5-meter (20-inch) charging device.