A RUSSIAN schoolgirl died after she was electrocuted when she dropped her charging mobile phone into the bath.

Tragic Yulia Vysotskaya's handset slipped out of her hands in an accident one expert compared to playing a deadly game of Russian roulette.

The 14-year-old died from drowning after suffering a massive electric shock at her home in Cheboksary, say reports citing medical sources.

Her devastated parents “called an ambulance but paramedics were only able to register the schoolgirl’s death and take her body to the morgue,” said one report.

This is the third such case reported in little over a year in the country – all involving girls – despite public warnings about the deadly risks of using smartphones in the bath.

In December, Russian martial arts champion Irina Rybnikova, 15, died instantly when using her iPhone plugged into a charger while in the bath at her home in Bratsk, Siberia.

The teenager was a champion fighter in pankration – a form of “no rules” boxing and wrestling originating in ancient Greece.

Earlier a 12 year old girl named Kseniya P was electrocuted while listening to music from her charging phone while in the bath in Bolshoe Gryzlovo. in the Moscow region.

Her mother was cooking an evening meal and become worried about Kseniya’s silence.

She went into the bathroom and found the girl “already dead with her head under the water”.

The phone was floating in the bath.

Electronics engineer Andrey Stanovsky has warned  that “relaxing in a bathroom with your mobile phone plugged is like playing Russian roulette”.

After Irina's death, Yury Agrafonov, the head of radio-electronic department of Irkutsk State University, said: “Water is a good conductor …. This is why there was a short circuit when the phone fell into the water.

“If the phone had not been plugged in to 220 volts, the tragedy would not have happened.”

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