Man dies as kite string cuts throat
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In a freak accident, a 28-year-old man on a bike was killed after a glass-coated kite string slashed his neck on Poonamalee High Road near Madhuravoyil on Sunday.
Raj Kumar, who runs a catering firm in Vanagaram, was travelling from his home in Naduvankarai near Arumbakkam to his kitchen when the mishap took place.
“He had his helmet on, but the kite string got stuck on his neck and slashed it. He fell down from the bike and died on the spot,” police said. His body was later shifted to Kilpauk medical college for post mortem.
Raj Kumar is the first person to die in this fashion this year in the city.
The city had been witnessing such deaths since 2007, when a two-year-old boy traveling on his father’s bike sitting on the petrol tank, died after his neck was slit by a kite string in May that year.
A 2-year-old girl died in similar manner in March 2010. One month earlier, in February 2010, a woman escaped with injuries. Last week, a journalist escaped with minor injuries when a kite string stuck him.
In most of the cases, abandoned kite strings cause the accidents, police said.
Within hours of the death on Sunday, police began crack down on kite sellers across the city. “Kite flying is punishable under the city police act,” said a police official.
Police had banned kite flying following the previous fatalities caused by kite strings but had not implemented it as many people in Chennai still find kite flying an interesting pastime.
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