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Can a charging iPhone electrocute you?

Apple is investigating the death of a young Chinese woman who was apparently electrocuted when she tried to answer a phone call

The likelihood is still "very, very low."

CC BY: Phil Roede

byChris Gayomali
January 8, 2015

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