More Shocking News: Beijing Man in Coma from iPhone-linked electrocution

Apple has only just begun investigating the case of a 23-year-old woman in Xinjiang who was allegedly killed by her charging iPhone and now comes news that a 30-year-old Beijing man has been in a coma from being electrocuted in a similar fashion.

According to the Beijing Evening News (via Cnet) the incident happened on July 8 when the victim, surnamed Wu, plugged his iPhone into a charger and suddenly cried out "I'm being shocked!" to his sister, who was also at home with him that night.

Mr Wu's sister found him on the ground "twitching and foaming at the mouth" and managed to pull the charger out of the outlet, which immediately caused her to feel "needle-like pains" running down her body to her toes. The victim suffered cardiac arrest and brain damage and remains in a coma at a local hospital.

The charger in this incident was yet another shanzhai model (similar to the model that was used by the Xinjiang air stewardess, police have confirmed) and both he and the Xinjiang victim were reportedly using iPhone4s. The Beijing man's iPhone and charger appeared to still be in working order after the accident, and the Beijing Evening News Report cites the possibility that the humid weather from the rains that night and poor wiring insulation on the charger, which the man purchased after losing the original charger that came with his iPhone, possibly contributed to the accident.

Despite the alarming proximity of these two accidents, experts still content that unless someone is in a situation in which they are using a third-party charger, have faulty wiring and are either soaking wet or in a bathtub, "death by iPhone electrocution" is highly unlikely - but for now you'd still probably be better off chucking any 20-kuai models bought from a stall or on the street and toweling off before you answer the phone.