A four-year-old minor boy died after a stray kite string slit his throat in the Shafiqabad locality of the metropolis.
According to media reports, the incident occurred in the Shafiqabad locality of the city on Friday where the minor lost his life due to loss of blood.
The four-year-old Ali Asghar was going on motorcycle when the mishap occurred.
He was immediately rushed to hospital where he died during treatment.
A four-year-old boy has been killed in Lahore’s Shafiqabad after his throat was slit by a kite string.
The police have registered a case into the incident but Ali Asghar’s relatives claim that the police is pressurising them so that they don’t press charges.
In the FIR, the police said Asghar’s throat was cut by a kite’s string stuck oon an electric pole, but the family has accused the cops of “changing the facts”.
The deceased’s grandfather, Niaz Ali, on Saturday that the police changed the facts in the case after the family resisted against their continuous pressure.
In the current year so far, seven persons most of them youth, have died in Lahore due to kite strings. Flying kites has been banned in Pakistan since 2005 when the Supreme Court imposed a ban on its manufacture.
