Two kids, who had gone out for a drive with their parents on Independence Day, were killed after a kite string (manja) slit their throats as they stuck their heads out the sunroof windows of their cars.
One incident was reported from northwest Delhi’s Rani Bagh and the other from west Delhi’s Tilak Nagar.
In the first incident, Sanchi Goyal was returning to her Deepali Enclave home from Naraina after watching a movie when the incident happened at Britannia Chowk.
According to the police, Sanchi was sitting on her mother’s lap on the passenger seat when she wanted to look out of the window of their Honda City car.
Her father Alok opened the window and her mother held her out of the sunroof. As she stood up, a kite string came in her way and her throat was slit. She collapsed on her mother’s lap.
Police said the string cut the girl’s vocal chords and windpipe, causing instant death.
The parents rushed her to Bhagwan Mahavir Hospital, half-a-kilometre from the spot, where she was declared dead on arrival.
“The manja had cut through her neck, including the windpipe. The cut was so deep she died instantly. The hospital authorities made a PCR call and a police team reached the spot. Her body has been sent for postmortem,” a senior police officer said.
In the other case, Harry (4), had put his head out of the sunroof window of his Swift Dzire car when the thread cut his throat.
“He could not even shout. He just collapsed on his father’s lap, bleeding from his neck. The father rushed him to the hospital and he was told that the kite string slit his windpipe,” a senior police officer said. “The boy had gone for a long drive to celebrate Independence Day with his parents,” he added.
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Sourced from Hindustan Times, Featured image courtesy: thehimalayantimes.com
