A phone that caught fire while charging killed an elderly Russian woman": the battery caused a fire in a residential apartment.
"In Yekaterinburg, a woman died during a fire in an apartment on the fourth floor of a five-story building. According to the data of the regional department in the Ministry of Emergency Situations, a fire occurred in the early morning hours in an area of four square meters.
Apparently, the owner of the apartment was asleep at the time. The department clarified that the cause of the fire was spontaneous combustion of the phone battery. As a result, household property burned, and the fire itself was extinguished as a result of self-extinguishing before the rescuers arrived. When the police arrived, a woman's body was found in the room."