Kite flying proved costly for some people during the Uttarayan festival in Gujarat. At least six people, including three children, died when their necks were cut from the string while flying kites, and due to cuts and falls from a height 243 People got injured. The police gave this information on Monday. These incidents were reported during the weekend when people came out in large numbers to fly kites on rooftops during the festival, he said.

Police officials said that in many cases people used sharp strings to fly kites, which got stuck in the neck of the victims and cut them. Death has happened. Two-year-old Keerthi, who was traveling on a two-wheeler with her father in Bhavnagar town, was slit by the string of a kite and she died during treatment at a hospital on Sunday, said an official of Bortalav police station. In another incident, a three-year-old’s luck came to an end in Visnagar town on Saturday. Was going home with mother, when a thread cut her neck. An officer of Visnagar police said that the girl was taken to the hospital, where doctors declared her brought dead. Similarly, after buying a kite, seven-year-old Rishabh Verma was going on a two-wheeler with his parents when he was beheaded by a manjha at Rakjot, said an official of Aji Dum police station. Three people lost their lives due to slit neck

According to the police, in Vadodara, Kutch and Gandhinagar districts, Incidents like this were reported where three people lost their lives after their necks were cut by the strings of kites while traveling on two-wheelers. According to statistics compiled by One Hundred and Eight-EMS Emergency Ambulance Service, the total number of people who were cut from the string while flying kites on Saturday and Sunday people got injured, while falling from height people got injured.

The data shows that on January 2023 and 02 January on 2023 cases Along with this there was a spurt in the number of road accidents.