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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A South Korean man whose death initially was blamed on an exploding cell phone battery was killed by a car accident involving his colleague, police said Friday.
The quarry worker, only identified by his family name Seo, was found dead Wednesday with a melted phone battery in his shirt pocket. Police and a local doctor who examined his body said the battery may have killed the man.
However, after preliminary autopsy results suggested damage to Seo's internal organs was too great to be caused by a cell phone explosion, police investigated his colleague who first reported the death, said Min Kang-gi, a detective in Chungju, some 140 kilometers (85 miles) south of Seoul.
The colleague, identified only by his surname Kwon, confessed to police that he accidentally killed Seo while he was backing up a drilling vehicle but first reported to police that the death was caused by the battery explosion, Min said.
Kwon told investigators after the accident that he moved his vehicle to destroy evidence but did not say he set the mobile phone on fire, Min said.
Police said the phone was made by South Korea's LG Electronics Inc., the world's fifth-largest handset maker.
LG expressed vindication at the revelation that the phone was not at fault.
"LG rigorously tests all the products not only for functionality and design, but safety as well," the company said in a statement.
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