Flying knives are back: One died due to kite string injury in Rajkot

Rajkot: Terror of flying knives is back. A person in Rajkot died last evening due to injury of stray string of kite. A 39-year old Vipul Mistry, resident of Mavdi area was returning from job on two-wheeler when kite string slit his throat near Satyam party plot and claimed his life. Every year, ahead of, during and after Uttarayan, many people suffer injuries on throat and some of them even die due to stray kite string. The government has banned Chinese kite string, but even many variants of local kite strings are equally lethal. Such kite strings take life of thousands of birds too. Kite flying festival is marked every year on 14th and 15th of January. However many kite enthusiasts chose to fly kites from December onward.