2002 MODEL SAMSUNG P10 LAPTOPS FIRE

A battery in a Samsung notebook computer melted, officials from the company and South Korea's fire department said.

The laptop battery emitted smoke after being used for about three and a half hours placed over a pillow, a fire department official in Seoul told Reuters by telephone. The battery burned a bed and a floor too, but did not cause a big fire, he added.

A Samsung's spokesman said that, it was a P10 model, which was produced in 2002 but did not give further details the producer of the battery. "We are checking details of the incident," James Chung, the company spokesman, said by telephone.