A Russian woman has died of electric shock after her smartphone fell in the bath while she was charging it.
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Office worker Anastasia Scherbinina, 25, who had previously worked as an aide to the local MP, was taking a bath when she was electrocuted at her home in Novosibirsk, reports say.
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\”She took a bath before going to sleep, and had her smartphone with her,\” said a report citing law enforcement.
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\”It was almost out of charge, so she used a power cable, so as not to be apart with the smartphone even when taking a bath.
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\”She dropped the phone and was electrocuted.
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\”She died instantly.\”
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Police are understood to be investigating the circumstances of her death.
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The tragedy follows warnings from the Russian authorities and police following a succession of deaths from electric shock by young people using phones in baths.