The wife of the victim also suffered severe burns and two children of the couple suffered from asphyxiation. The children were stable but the woman is still under observation
A 40-year-old man was killed when the battery of his new electric bike exploded causing fire in his bedroom in Vijayawada city in the early hours of Saturday.
The incident was similar to the one that happened three days ago in Nizamabad town in neighbouring Telangana where an electric vehicle battery exploded killing an 80-year-old man.