Bomb Concealed in a Cellphone

Russian media has been reporting that a 23yr old woman had died following the detonation of a bomb that was apparently concealed inside a cellphone. The woman's husband is reported as saying that the cellphone had been purchased at a market near a Moscow subway station and exploded when his wife first switched it on. The deputy prosecutor for the town of Lubertsy, Ramis Sapparov verified to the local RTR television station that the explosion had occurred but refused to say what caused it.

Due to the level of sophistication needed to conceal a bomb within a cellphone casing, the domestic security agency are understood to be also investigating the explosion. Guns have been concealed in cellphones before but this appears to be the first instance of an explosive device being concealed in a phone.'"

Posted to the site on 3rd June 2002