KOLKATA: Three people suffered minor burn injuries in eastern India when the battery of a Nokia mobile phone exploded while it was being charged, police said on Monday.

A 54-year-old man and his two grandchildren were slightly hurt near eastern Kolkata city, police superintendent Neeraj Kumar Singh said.

“A complaint has been lodged against the dealer who sold the mobile set,” Singh said, adding that the phone had the BL-5C series battery, which the

Finnish phone maker had recalled in August after complaints of overheating.

The injured man said that a Nokia dealer had declared the battery safe when he took his phone to a company outlet after the manufacturer issued an advisory about potentially defective batteries.

Nokia said it was investigating the complaint.

“We have received the complaint. Our representatives will visit the customer’s home to probe the case,” said Poonam Kaul, head of Nokia corporate communications in the city.

It was the third such reported incident in West Bengal state since late August.

Nokia had said in August that about 46 million batteries supplied by Japan’s Matsushita Battery Industrial Co could overheat.

The company received 165,000 SMS messages in India after its advisory.—AFP