Beijing: A viral video is doing the rounds of social media sites where a passenger’s power bank exploded in his backpack on a bus.




In the video from south-east China’s Guangzhou, CCTV footage shows the man seated with his backpack on his lap, talking to the passenger next to him. While he was busy conversing with the man, the backpack suddenly burst into flame.



In the video, he was then seen throwing away his backpack to the aisle of the bus where other commuters also gather to extinguish the fire.

As per reports, the power bank inside the man’s backpack had exploded and caused the explosion. No one was reportedly injured.