See the attached link for an update on this news article. A third party charger was involved and Apple is apparently offering replacements.

//news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57594449-37/iphone-related-death-in-china-could-be-linked-to-fake-charger/

Our local inspector is requiring a seperate circuit for each garage door opener if there are two or more with seperate GFI protection. They are allowing the use of a GFI outlet in normal garage ceilings easily accesed with standard equipment. These loads are nominal at best and the load is less than a single circuit for non continuous use. What grounds do they have to make this ruling?

I'm a licensed electrician originally from canada and primarily work overseas in jurisdictions that have no inspection or quality control. 3 times now, I have been called up to deal with this exact issue on mac products. Although it was on the laptops, I finally figured out that if the line voltages were exact meaning 120 to N or 230 to N with no voltages on the Neutral, then no shocks would occur. But once the N starts to float, then the shock increases considerably. The first time I was called, I didn't want to believe it since I am a mac user myself. So I licked my hand, grabbed the laptop and slapped my hand onto the ceramic floor and wow! what a buzz I got from that one. So I completely believe the tragic story of the woman in China

Certainly to stop the heart by paralyzing the motor sensory part of the brain there would need to be a high potential to ground with a much larger ampacity than wants present on a phone charger. Maybe a lighting strike or high stray voltage or a malfunctioning battery acting as a high voltage capacitor.

The focus of this investigation is now on the charging device. Apparently it was an after market product, not a factory supplied charger.

Wanna wager where it was manufactured?