Bombile Menace in Assam (mobile blast)

Bombile Menace in Assam (mobile blast)
Newmai News Network Reports:

    The technocrats are still clueless about the claimed “explosions” of mobile phones reported from Assam, half a month after the incidents first emerged in the media. Rural folks in Assam, being superstitious, comfort themselves with the “daadima ki nuskhe” (protection of the deities). They seem to have found in lime, turmeric and other grandmother recipes the counter to the ‘devil’s call’. Some are also carrying gourd seeds hoping they would ‘absorb the impact of the debilitating calls.’
According to the “victims,” the mysterious numbers are either in red color or letters in between the numbers. Earlier, Chief Minister of Assam Tarun Gogi sought a “scientific probe into these cases.” The government later formed a panel for the matter.   Service providers have also begun investigating into the veracity of the reports “made believable” by small-town cable TV operators recording the “ordeal” of the “victims.”
    Experts assigned by the service providers are yet to get to the bottom of the mystery. A cell-phone specialist said most of the incidents reported since mid-September involves low-cost handsets  in the rural areas. “This  could  be a case of handset quality,” he said, not ruling out faulty battery as a reason. However, “victims” claimed  the batteries of their “bombiles” were intact. Last week, a housewife Wahida Khatun of western Assam’s Goalpara town claimed that a call she received last Monday left her with terrible headache and ‘weakness’. On the same day, Ruma Laila of central Assam’s Kamalpur town reported bleeding from ears and nose after a ‘mysterious call made her handset explode’.
    The district hospitals admitted 10 more patients hit by “bombiles” – a term coined for bomb-like or exploding mobile handsets  – in the past few days. The “phenomenon” hit Guwahati last Thursday after one Manik Sarkar, 23, ‘became unconscious’ following a call from a number police officials later said had a “Pakistan code”. Moromi Begum of Rangiya town, 60 km east of Guwahati, was also ‘hit’ by a similar number that day.