Young Girl Electrocuted After Her Phone Charger Cable Touched The Metal Legs Of Her Bed. While charging her mobile with a frayed extension cable that touched her bed's metal legs, a woman was electrocuted.

Nong Ying, 17, was playing on her smartphone while using the broken thread, covered with duct tape, it was plugged into the feet.

The cable seems to have touched her bed frame in aluminum, killing her instantly on Friday night in Chaiyaphum, northeastern Thailand.

Boonpeng Tuponchai, 47, Nong's mother, came back home and found the teenager still lying in the bedroom. Boonpeng said she thought that her daughter was asleep and tried to wake her up but she suffered a minor electrical shock when she touched the body.

The mother rushed to the power control and cut the power but her daughter was already dead.

She had burns on her left hand, believed to have been from where she was holding the handset.



Investigating officer Police Captain Khanti Peansoongnern blamed an old power strip that had been repaired several times for causing an electric shock.

He said the girl was electrocuted after she accidentally touched the metal bed frame which had come into contact with the electrical current.

Captain Khanti said: 'I think the old power strip provided an electrical leakage which ran to the bed, either through the soil on the ground, or directly touching the metal.

'The girl might have then accidentally have touched the bed's edge which is metal and she was electrocuted.

'However, we need to collect evidence from the scene and examine the body for the post mortem examination before we can confirm her cause of death, will not rule anything out at this stage.'