Uk man charging his iPhone while bathing dies
 

Police Commissioner Craig Pattison told the Mail that he couldn't rule out suicide when he heard the details of the incident, but after arriving at the scene, police concluded that it was an accident:

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Initial circumstances indicated suicide. The question was considered in the original call, but the cable wasn?t near the bath, it had been run there to charge a mobile phone. The extension cable was on the floor and it appeared as though he had his phone charger on his chest and the part between the phone charger and the cable had made contact with the water.

As a result of the tragedy, Dr. Sean Cummings ? the coroner ? plans to write a letter to Apple asking the company to attach warnings to its phones. Bringing an electronic device into the bath while it?s plugged into an outlet is probably something you would avoid doing, but as unwilling as many of us are to walk away from our phones even for an instant, it?s not nearly as surprising as it probably should be that this happened.

Don?t bring electronic devices with you into the bath. Let?s keep hammering that point home.

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I'm not an electricity expert, but it doesn't seem like the charger passes enough electricity to kill. I'll bet the phone fell in and out of simple panic he had a heart attack.