Cellphone death

HANOI: A Vietnamese teenager has died after being electrocuted by a faulty phone charger.

Le Thi Xoan, 14, was asleep at her home in Dong village, in the central province of Ha Tinh, when the charger malfunctioned and shot a strong current through the cable, Tran Xuan Hoa, party chief of the communes, said.

The resulting electrical current hit Xoan, who was found dead by police.