Tag: kite-flying

  • Gujarat: Over 60 injured via kite strings right through Uttarayan festivities 

    Through PTI

    AHMEDABAD: Over 60 other people sustained accidents in kite-flying injuries within the first few hours of Uttarayan festivities in Gujarat on Friday, an professional stated.

    Until 12 pm, the “108” emergency ambulance provider shifted 63 other people, most commonly commuters on roads, to within reach hospitals when they sustained cuts on their throats and faces because of kite strings placing dangerously in public puts, it was once said.

    No deaths had been reported in kite-flying injuries thus far right through the day, the professional stated.

    As in keeping with a liberate issued via the ambulance services and products, of 63 individuals injured via kite strings, 21 instances have been reported from Ahmedabad by myself, adopted via seven every from Vadodara and Rajkot districts.

    In all, the “108” ambulance provider gained 1,203 emergency calls until midday, which was once upper than ultimate 12 months’s rely of one,043 calls, it was once said.

    Except for the wounds led to because of kite strings, 69 individuals around the state additionally fell from their terraces or from a top, most commonly whilst flying or catching kites, the discharge stated.