Kite string kills 2 kids, motorists

Kids stuck their heads out of sunroofs

Two children and a motorcylist were killed and a policeman injured in mishaps involving kite string during Independence Day celebrations on Monday.

In separate mishaps, the two three-year-olds had stuck their heads out of the sunroofs of their parents' cars when they were slashed by some `manjha'.

Sanchi Goyal was looking out of the sunroof in northwest Delhi’s Ranibagh when some metal-coated kite string got entangled around her neck.

She had gone out for a movie with her parents in Naraina and the mishap happened on their way back home. The car passed through an area where people were flying kites to celebrate Independence Day.

The parents didn’t realise what was happening till their daughter dropped on to the mother’s lap with her neck bleeding. 

Before that she was laughing throughout the ride, the parents told police.
They had also taken some pictures of the child standing in the car, part of her body sticking out from the sunroof.

Sanchi was taken to hospital, where she was declared brought dead.

Her father is a businessman and mother a housewife. She was their only child.

In a similar accident, three-year-old Harry died when he was looking out from the sunroof while travelling with his parents and an uncle. They were going in a car from Subhash Park to Tilak Nagar in west Delhi.

In Keshopur near Vikaspuri, a biker died when some kite’s string caught his neck. Zafar Khan was coming from his sister’s home and going towards Nihal Vihar around 5.30 pm.  
As he tried to free himself, the `manjha' got further entangled and he fell from his motorcycle.

He was taken to the hospital by a passer-by but he died due to the head injury he suffered on falling off the motorcycle.

A policeman on patrol on his motorcycle was injured in Anand Vihar on Independence Day. He couldn’t see the `manjha' while riding and got a cut on his neck, said police.
Thirty-year-old sub-inspector M K Manoj was on duty at around 6 pm when the incident took place.

He was taken to the hospital and was discharged after treatment.