DHAKA: A second replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 device, deemed safe by the company, has caught fire in the US.

Samsung has been forced to issue new models of the smartphone following complaints of faulty batteries.

A man in Kentucky said he was “scared to death” when he woke to a bedroom full of smoke, US media say, reports the BBC.

It comes after another replacement Note 7 caught fire on a Southwest Airlines plane on Wednesday.

“The phone is supposed to be the replacement, so you would have thought it would be safe,” Michael Klering of Nicholasville, Kentucky, told local broadcaster WKYT.

He added that his device was not plugged in when it caught fire at his home on Tuesday.

The BBC’s North America technology reporter Dave Lee says Samsung is now facing a “full-blown crisis”, adding that this latest news raises “serious questions over its obligation to protect the public”.

The Note 7 was subject to a mass recall in September, but Samsung said it had identified and fixed the problem.

BDST: 2121 HRS, OCT 09, 2016
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