More Samsung Woes: Reports Received That the Galaxy J5 is Also Exploding!

Telco giant Samsung is in more hot water. Following a large-scale recall of the Galaxy Note 7 due to technical problems, another Samsung smartphone model, the Galaxy J5, has been reported to have exploded.

Fortune.com ran an Associated Press story detailing how French national Lamya Bouyirdane's Samsung Galaxy J5 exploded during a family gathering. According to the report, Bouyirdane, a mother of three living Pau, a city in the southwest of France, asked her four-year-old son to pass her the phone and noticed that it was very hot.

However, she recalled noticing the phone's swollen appearance and that smoke was starting to come out of her Samsung Galaxy J5 unit. "I panicked when I saw the smoke and I had the reflex to throw it away," the article quoted the distressed woman as saying. Worse, the phone caught fire and its back blew off. Fortunately, Bouyirdane's partner was there and was able to quickly put the fire out.

According to CBSNews.com, the phone is merely four months old. Bouyirdane was said to have bought the Samsung Galaxy J5 unit from an online store. The report said the French national is intent on suing Samsung for the mishap.

Samsung, a South Korean company, has recently come under fire for its defective Galaxy Note 7 smartphones. This high-end phone, marketed as the direct competition of the iPhone 7, had overheating batteries causing it to catch fire or explode. Since its release, hundreds of users have reported overheating batteries, smoke coming out of the unit, or phones that suddenly explode.

The number of complaints and reported incidents left the company with no choice but to issue a global recall of the Galaxy Note 7. This is the first report of a Samsung Galaxy J5 exploding. The company has yet to issue a statement or a response to the incident in France as of press time.