13-Year-Old Girl Dies Of Electric Shock After Mobile Phone Falls Into Bathtub

A 13-year-old girl in France died of an electric shock after her mobile phone, which was plugged in to charge, fell into her bathtub.

Paramedics were called to the home in Mâcon, and the teenager was rushed to the hospital. Rescue workers were initially able to revive the girl, 7News reported, citing the newspaper Le Parisien on Saturday. However, she then went into a coma and spent a few days in the university hospital in Lyon before succumbing to injuries.

A friend was with her at the time of the accident. The friend was also taken to the hospital to receive treatment for shock.

The exact events are still being investigated, the local police said, according to NZ Herald.

The young girl's grieving mother went public with a warning to other teenagers, saying: "This must be a warning to other teenagers, because they all have their phones implanted in their hands, so to speak."

"We really have to insist: no phones in bathtubs because it can end so dramatically," she said.

Authorities have not revealed the identity of the victim in the case. The exact date when the incident took place has also not been revealed.

In a similar incident last year, a Russian woman died of electrocution after accidentally dropping her iPhone in her bath while it was charging. Olesya Semenova, 24, suffered a massive electric shock and was found dead by her friend Daria at their home in Arkhangelsk. Authorities said the woman died in her bath and there was no time for paramedics to take her to the hospital. "I screamed, shook her, but she was pale, did not breathe and showed no signs of life," Semenova's friend told the emergency operator. She added that she had tried to touch Semenova but got an electric shock. "There was a smartphone in the water and it was charging," she said.

In another incident in New Mexico, a 14-year-old girl was fatally electrocuted while using her mobile phone in a bathtub. Reports said at the time she texted her friend a photo of her phone charger plugged into an extension cord before the accident.