Touchscreen locked & unresponsive/ Can't restart!

My iPhone 5 touchscreen is unresponsive. The phone is locked, and I cannot even restart it because I cannot use the restart slider. I have not installed any updates or apps, and the phone has not fallen or anything like that! What should I do?

Oops, this has solved my problem iPhone 5s is locked and the touchscreen is unresponsive how can i fix this..
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