Two children and a man have died in Delhi after their throats were slit by glass-coated strings used for flying kites on Indian independence day. Zafar Khan, 22, died after his neck became entangled in a string while he was on his motorbike. Birds are also affected – 500 have been admitted to the city’s Charity Birds facility with injuries from kite strings in the past three days. It quoted a senior police officer as saying: “The manja [kite string] had cut through her neck, including the windpipe. An eight-year-old boy was also injured by a kite string in Ghaziabad, east of Delhi, and required at least 20 stitches, the Hindustan Times reported.

Source: The Guardian August 17, 2016 13:41 UTC