Employees of a mobile phone shop in India were forced to run for cover on Tuesday when a customer's handset exploded into a ball of fire. <br /><br />The incident occurred at Batala, Punjab, India, on October 10. <br /><br />The customer had come to buy a new phone. <br /><br />A CCTV camera at the shop shows the customer trying to remove the sim card from his old phone with a sharp instrument.<br /><br />Suddenly sparks fly and smoke rises from the handset, prompting shop employees to run for cover. <br /><br />The phone explodes into flames and starts burning till one of the shop employees musters courage to push it away from the counter.
