CER reports:

In separate incidents, two iPhone users were electrocuted while charging their devices. On July 11, flight attendant and bride-to-be Ma Ailun was electrocuted and killed making a call on her iPhone 4 while it was charging. Then, on Friday, 30-year-old Beijing resident Wu Jiantong was sent into a coma after suffering a huge electrical shock while plugging his iPhone 4 into a wall socket.

Websites and blogs crammed the words “Apple” and “iPhone” into news headlines, focusing more negative attention on the California-based company. Apple is still recovering from an avalanche of criticism over a supposedly unequal warranty policy in China, and an investigation into websites providing pornographic content.

The big bad Apple angle did dominate initial reports. An early Xinhua article cited Ma’s sister as saying she used all original Apple gear.

Chinese media cut through these misleading reports in subsequent days. State media later reported that Ma and Wu were both using non-Apple phone chargers at the time of their respective electrocutions.

Faulty chargers seem like an obvious culprit when considering the mechanics involved.

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