Ahmedabad, Jan 14 (PTI) Two persons were killed aftertheir throats were slit by sharp glass-coated kite strings intwo separate incidents in Mehsana and Anand districts today,police said.
Police said that Kalpesh Patel (33) was riding atwo-wheeler in Gojhariya village in Mehsana when the kitestring slit his throat and he bled to death.
In a similar incident,38-year-old Ashwin Prajapati,who was riding a motorcycle, bled to death after his throatwas slit by a kite string at Navapura village in Khambhattaluka of Anand district today, police said.
The throat of Bharat Parmar (35) was slit by a kitestring in Vadnagar town of Mehsana district and he iscurrently undergoing treatment at a hospital, police informed.
Two persons riding a motorcycle in Padra town ofVadodara district also sustained serious injuries due to kitestrings, officials added.
In another incident, a man died at a governmenthospital in Ahmedabad where he was admitted today afterhe lost his balance while flying kites and fell from the roofof a four-storey building in Maninagar locality, police said.
A 40-year-old man in Rakjot was killed after being runover by a train while walking along the tracks looking up forkites, an official of Pradyunma Nagar police station said. PTIKA VJABNM.
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