A Thai man died from a suspected electric shock after playing on his phone while it was plugged in charging.

Kittisak Moonkitti, 28, shut himself in his room with his black Android smartphone in Chonburi, western Thailand on Monday (02/12) afternoon.

When the mother Rinnaporn Moonkitti, 57, was about to leave for work she went to check on her son, as he had not replied to her calls to help clean the house.

Rinnaporn saw her son, a chef, lying still in his bedroom with his right hand still holding his handset, which was plugged into the mains.

He had burn marks across his hand and both of his forearms.

Rinnaporn said that she tried to wake her son by yelling his name poking him with a stick but when he did not respond so she called the police.

Officers arrived and pronounced the young man dead at the scene from a suspected electric shock caused by his mobile phone.

The devastated mother said: "I came here to visit him but he stayed in his bedroom all the time, even when I called out to him to help me clean. That's when I went to check him in his bedroom.

"I was worried that he was sick because he did not respond to any of my call and my nudges. Then I contacted the police right away."

Police said that there first impression was that Kittisak had been electrocuted. They cited the reports from paramedics which identified burn marks on his right hand from where he had been holding the phone.

Captain Issara Arokha said: "The body examination by the paramedics showed burn son the victim's right hand which suggested that he was electrocuted by his charging phone.

"We will take the body for a post-mortem examination before we will confirm the cause of death."