Chinesa manja claims life of Army driver, 3 others in Hyderabad
The Hindu
Pictures from the scene showed a blood-stained scooter, a kite and the manja that entangled his neck.
A Naik-rank officer of the Indian Army succumbed to his injuries, reportedly after his throat got slit by a Chinese manja (abrasive string used for flying kites) here in Langer House police limits on Saturday.
The victim, Kagithala Koteswar Reddy, 30, was declared ‘dead on arrival’ at a local hospital.
According to the police, Reddy hailed from Pedda Wailter of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. A driver in the Military Hospital here, he and his wife were residing at Bapu Nagar in Langer House.
The incident took place at around 7.25 p.m., when he was on his scooter on the Indra Reddy flyover. Pictures from the scene showed a blood-stained scooter, a kite and the manja that entangled his neck.
Langer House police said an inquest report was made and noted that the kite string caused the death of the officer. The post-mortem examination was conducted at the Osmania General Hospital and the mortal remains were handed over to the family, for transporting them for final rites at Pedda Waltair.
The police opened an investigation under IPC S. 304 (ii) - Culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
Within a span of 24 hours, the city witnessed three more deaths related to kite flying.
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