CCTV moment a worker's phone explodes in his pocket leaving him with burns and smoking trousers

CCTV footage has captured the moment a man's mobile phone exploded in his pocket leaving him with smoking trousers and a burned leg.

The man was working in a hardware factory when smoke started to pour from his jeans and a video shows him frantically trying to pull the device from his pocket.

He pulls it out and throws it to the floor, while him and his workers at the factory in Sakinaka in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, run away.