A paraglider plunged to his death after his parachute lines were severed by a kite modified for children to play a popular game. Pilot Marcelo Nunes Rodrigues, 52, is said to have burned to death ...

Vishal Bhatnagar/NurPhoto/Shutte A 2-year-old girl identified only as Kirti was riding with her father on his bicycle in Bhavnagar city when her neck was cut by a kite string, and she died at a ...

The aim of the contest is to cut down other kites with kite string in a kind of aerial combat. But this can be deadly for spectators and competitors, as the cord is reinforced with metal and ...

But in recent years, Indian kite fighters have been using sharp nylon or synthetic strings coated with powdered glass called Chinese manjha — Chinese string, in Hindi — that is almost ...

another teenager died after his neck was slit by a kite string while travelling on a motorcycle in the Misri Shah area on Monday. The teenager motorcyclist was identified as Mobeen Kashif.