Dad, daughter and dog flee as electric scooter explodes in Beijing living room while charging

An electric scooter suddenly exploded inside a home in Beijing while charging. CCTV video, which captured the July 29 incident at a living room in a flat, shows the electric scooter making a loud bang - startling a dog sleeping beside it - before emitting smoke and then catching alight. denly exploding when it is charging in a living room. A man quickly gets up from the sofa and unplugs it. But as the living room is enveloped in thick smoke, the man and his daughter and dog flee. A ball of fire bursts out and engulfs the whole apartment. Security and the property management staff were able to extinguish the fire quickly and no one was injured. The owner of the flat, named only as Zhao in local reports, said she had only bought the electric scooter a week before and damages amount to £2,200. The brand of scooter was not known.