A 76-year-old grandmother was killed when an e-bike battery exploded like a “blowtorch” inside a Queens pizzeria on the Fourth of July – trapping her as she tried to leave the bathroom, the FDNY said.

TOKYO -- Six people were taken to hospital after a fire possibly caused by a mobile battery exploding in an apartment in Tokyo's Suginami Ward in the early hours of Sept. 25. A resident of the ...