Man Found Electrocuted To Death With 2 Plugged-In Mobile Phones Beneath His Body

A man was found electrocuted to death with two mobile phones beneath his body in Chonburi, Thailand, on Monday.

According to reports, the man, identified as 35-year-old Kanchamaiporn Saithong, worked as a shop assistant at an electronics store. On Monday, the man did not turn for work following which a colleague arrived at his home to check on him. When the victim did not answer the door, the colleague, 33-year-old Chutiman Siathong, got into the room with the help of an apartment block porter and found him lying motionless on the floor. On a closer look, the woman noticed that the man was lying on top of two plugged-in mobile phones.

Recalling the incident, the colleague said, “It was unusual for him not to attend work, so I went to his room. There was no answer and the door was locked. I asked for help from the apartment block porter getting inside and that's when we found him.”

Police and paramedics arrived at the scene and pronounced him dead. They concluded that the victim was electrocuted to death.

“We believed he was electrocuted because we found two mobile phones beneath his body. They were both plugged into the electricity socket. The body was sent to the hospital for the postmortem examination, which we will consider again before we confirm the cause of his death,” Police Lieutenant Colonel Sompong Atiwongthada said.