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An Indian man was killed when his cell phone exploded in his face. Gopal Gujjar, 23, was found dead on 17 August with burns to his left ear, neck and shoulders, near a farm in Bandha village close to the city of Kota in Rajasthan. He had apparently gone to the forest to graze cattle about noon and was believed to be talking on the phone when it exploded. Pieces of the Nokia 1209 handset, a basic model released in August 2008, were scattered nearby. In January 2010, a 27-year-old woman in Andhra Pradesh was killed while talking to her husband on a charging phone.