A 14-year-old girl died after she accidentally dropped her smartphone in her bath and got electrocuted.
14-year-old Yulia Vysotskaya was trying to charge her smartphone, the phone fell out of her hands and fell in the water.
Officials said that 14-year-old Yulia Vysotskaya drowned after she felt a massive electric shock inside her house in Cheboksary.
The parents of the teenager called the paramedics, after they reached the scene, they found that Yulia was dead. The ambulance brought the dead body of Yulia to the morgue.
This is the 3rd reported case in Russia in the past year, all of them were girls.
Experts have sent out warning about the deadly risks of using phones in the bathroom, one expert even compared the risks to the “Russian Roulette”.
In December 2018, 15-year-old Irina Rybnikova, a martial arts champion in Russia passed away after she used her plugged iPhone while taking a bath inside her house in Bratsk, Siberia.
15-year-old Irina Rybnikova was a champion in Pankration, a type of no rules wrestling and boxing that started in Greece centuries ago.
The Head of the Radio-Electronic Department of Irkutsk State University said this after the death of Irina, ‘Water is a good conductor … This is why there was a short circuit when the phone fell into the water. If the phone had not been plugged in to 220 volts, the tragedy would not have happened.’
Before that, Kseniya P, a 12-year-old girl got electrocuted after she was listening to music while her phone was charging as she was in the bath, she was inside her house in Bolshoe Gryzlovo Village of the Serpukhovsky District in Moscow.
The mother of Kseniya was cooking their dinner and was bothered by the silence of Kseniya. After she went to the bathroom, she saw her daughter dead, her head was under the water and the phone was floating in the bath.
Andrey Stanovsky, an electronics engineer said that “relaxing in a bathroom with your mobile phone plugged is like playing Russian roulette”.