Boy, six, dies in India after throat cut by glass-coated kite string

Daksh Giri was wedged on father's scooter when stray razor-sharp kite string wrapped around his neck

A six-year-old boy has died after his throat was cut by a stray kite string as he rode on a scooter with his father in Ludhiana, north India.

Daksh Giri was standing on the scooter on Tuesday, wedged between the steering wheel and his father, when they drove into a lethally sharp plastic kite string coated with powdered glass. The string became entangled around his neck, slitting his throat open. Daksh died later in hospital.