Cradle’s Nazrin killed by shrapnel from handphone explosion


PETALING JAYA: Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd (Cradle) group chief executive officer Nazrin Hassan died after his handphone exploded, the Finance Ministry company has confirmed.

"The post-mortem report concluded the cause of death as being complication of blast injuries attributable to an exploding handphone that was being charged next to him," the company's management said in a statement Friday.

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