SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The South Korean man who was believed killed in an accident involving a cell phone may not have died of an exploding phone battery, a news report said Thursday.
The quarry worker was found dead Wednesday with a melted phone battery stuck in his shirt pocket. His heart and lungs were damaged, and his spine and some ribs were broken, police had said.
The National Institute of Scientific Investigation said the body had a burn but the scope of damage to internal organs was too extensive to have been caused by a cell phone explosion, Yonhap news agency reported, citing an unnamed official who performed an autopsy.
"It is difficult to conclude that the damage of internal organs was caused by the cell phone battery explosion," Yonhap quoted the official as saying.
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