Man dies hours after kite string slits his neck on flyover in Southeast Delhi
Police sources said that the man, identified as Rajneesh, had wrapped a cloth around his neck as precaution, but the string managed to cut through the cloth and slit his neck. Police added that Rajneesh died just hours after being taken to the hospital.
The incident was reported around 4.40 pm on the carriageway connecting Sarita Vihar to Faridabad. 'He was found bleeding heavily from the neck… Preliminary investigation suggests that he was injured from manjha or a kite string,' DCP (South East) Hemant Tiwari had said on Saturday. Police also said that Rajneesh had attempted to stem the bleeding before collapsing on the road.
Despite being banned in Delhi, the sale of Chinese manjha — a nylon string coated with crushed pieces of glass — has not stopped. In recent years, it has been linked to multiple cases of deaths and injuries where mostly people riding two-wheelers have been reported as the victims.
On June 27, Yash Goswami (22) died after his throat was slit by manjha on Rani Jhansi flyover in North Delhi. The Karawal Nagar resident was on his way home. In another incident on July 2, though the string did not claim the life of Axis Bank employee Prakash, it slashed his face while he was on the Shastri Park flyover on his bike.
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