A Chinese woman has claimed she was left with a scratched eyeball after her iPhone 5 exploded.

The phone user, surnamed Li from Dalian, said she felt that her iPhone was hot after talking on it for 40 minutes.

She said that when she tried to end the call on the touch screen phone it was unresponsive and then it exploded at the top right hand corner, cracking the screen and sending particles of the device into her eyes.

Concerning: A Chinese woman is claiming she was left with a scratched eyeball after her iPhone 5 exploded

Li said that she bought the phone last September and had dropped it on one occasion, leaving the phone with a small crack on its upper right corner, reported Want China Times.

Last month it was claimed that an air stewardess was killed by an electric shock when she answered a call on her iPhone 5 while it was recharging.

News of the death of Ma Ailun, 23, was posted on the internet by her sister, prompting criticism of Apple among the country’s millions of iPhone users.

‘I want to warn everyone else not to make phone calls when your mobile phone is recharging,’ her sister wrote.

Miss Ma, who was due to marry in August, was said to have bought her iPhone 5 in December from an official store in her home town in Xinjiang province.

Her brother told a Hong Kong newspaper the phone had been handed to Chinese authorities for examination.

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