Uppinangady, 15 Mar 2017: A private bus driver Sandesh (23) was injured after his cell phone kept in his shirt pocket exploded when he was driving the bus near Alike near Uppinangadi town of Dakshina Kannada district on Tuesday. His eyes, and hands burnt in the accident, fortunately, the wounds did’t impact his visual capacity.
The incident was occurred at 7.30am when the bus was on its way at Alike Store from Madyantharu to reach Uppinangady. The passengers narrowly escaped from an accident as the bus was moving slowly when the mobile was exploded as around 30 passengers were travelling by the bus. The exploded touch screen Intex company hand set was purchased by Sandesh a year ago and it didn’t had any complaints.