GRUESOME: A sharpened kite wire, like those used for aerial sport in the film "The Kite Runner" (above), slashed the throat of Jared Kopeloff, 13, as he skateboarded on this Flushing street.

The incident left him with severe cuts on his neck, lips, ear and face, with portions of the rear and lower neck reportedly ...

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As Lahore gears up for a tightly regulated three-day Basant Festival from Feb 6 to 8, soaring prices of kites and string, market shortages and enforcement challenges have triggered court intervention, ...

To keep motorcyclists safe due to the deadly sport of kite flying in Rawalpindi, the City Traffic Police (CTP) on Tuesday issued an advisory to install a safety cable on their two-wheelers which will ...

Three children, including a baby, are among the dead after the day of celebration in Gujarat turned sinister, The Sun reports. The spectators’ throats were sliced open by the razor-sharp strings used ...

India’s annual kite-flying competition turned deadly this year as competitors used specially-coated strings to disable their opponents kites. Police say six people were killed in the Indian state of ...

A man in HCMC gets his neck slashed by a kite string as he was riding a motorbike onto the Thu Thiem 2 Bridge. Nguyen Van Luy, 27, was taken to a hospital with long cuts on the neck and arms, a ...

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 glass-coated kite string as he rode ...