Kolkata: A scooter rider got his throat slit by kite thread (manja) on Maa flyover on Sunday afternoon. He was rushed to SSKM hospital by the police where doctors treated and discharged the injured.
On Sunday around 3:20 pm, a doctor at SSKM hospital identified as Dr Saikat Chakraborty was riding his scooter on Maa Flyover to go home in Nayabad. But near Park Circus 4 number bridge his neck and face got entangled in the kite thread.
Immediately he stopped his scooter and tried to remove the thread. Meanwhile, a few drivers, who noticed the incident, informed police.
Upon receiving the information police personnel went on Maa Flyover and rushed Chakraborty to SSKM hospital.
Since last few months several such incidents occurred on Maa Flyover. During October Suresh Majumdar a resident of Bally in Howrah was injured due to kite thread.
On October 21, he was riding his motorcycle on Maa flyover, near Topsia and felt something was wrong around his throat. He stopped the motorcycle and saw blood dripping from his throat.
When he tried to understand what happened and put his hand on his throat, the victim found kite thread.
Though police have asked the locals staying adjacent to Maa flyover not to fly kites near the area, no one bothers to obey the order.
As a result similar accidents have taken place in the past. In last September, an Information Technology (IT) employee's throat got slit in the same manner when he was riding his motorcycle on Maa flyover.
On December, 2017, a-10-year-old girl's throat got slit by kite thread and suffered
major injuries.
Though police say steps would be taken to curb such incidents but no one knows how this practice could be stopped completely.