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Cell-phone blamed for overnight house fire (In Khon Kaen (in Mancha Khiri…
Cell-phone blamed for overnight house fire
In Khon Kaen
In Thailand
in Mancha Khiri district
was destroyed by a fire believed
started by a plugged-in mobile phone left to overcharge
when the householder
went out for the night.
identified only as
Thongkham
later arrived home
and passed out
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80-year-old
later told police
she set her mobile phone to charge in her bedroom and forgot to unplug it before leaving the house on business.
Police
were alerted to the fire at
the wooden house in Ban Nong To
at around 12.30am on Wednesday.
Firefighters from several districts
were dispatched to the site and brought the blaze under control in about 30 minutes
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There was no-one home at the time.
Pol Col Banjong Sirisut
superintendent of Mancha Khiri police station
said
neighbors told officers they heard a loud noise from inside the house, and then saw flames which quickly spread through it.
“This is the likely cause of the fire,”
The cause of the blaze is still being investigated.