China has something of an obsession with mobile phones. However it seems someone has displeased the Lord: From the China Daily:

On the Juyongguan section of the Great Wall, lightning hit dozens of tourists at 2:40 pm on Saturday, injuring 15 people. During the thunder and lightning, a senior person was using a mobile phone to make a call, witnesses said. When analyzing the cause of the accident, experts said the senior person's use of a mobile phone had caused the lightning strike.

It is very dangerous to use mobile phones in stormy weather where there is thunder and lightning, said Liu Shuhua, a professor of the Atmosphere Science Department at Peking University. The electromagnetic waves emitted by mobile phones were quite good conductors for electricity, Liu told China Daily. When using a mobile phone while there is lightning, the mobile phone is just like a lightning rod and a large electric current is concentrated in the mobile phone, Liu said.