The teenage daughter of a top foreign affairs department official was being treated in a Pretoria hospital for second degree burns suffered when her laptop computer's battery pack exploded. Fifteen-year-old Nikita Sooklal is the youngest child of the department's deputy director-general responsible for the Middle East and Asia, Dr Anil Sooklal. Sooklal told Sapa that his wife and daughter were at their Pretoria East home on Tuesday around 3.20pm while he was at the office. "My daughter had switched on the laptop and was looking for a website about Macbeth, her school set-work, and my wife was upstairs. "Suddenly there...
