Ahmedabad, January 15: One person died and over 100, including a German, were injured due to cut from sharp strings used for kite flying or fall from roof-tops and terraces during Uttarayan festival across Gujarat today.
One Dhruv Chauhan (17) died after falling off the third floor of a residential complex in Maodasa town of Sabarkantha district while flying kite, police said.
A German national, Yohan Flake, working as a volunteer at a primary school in Bavla taluka run by the Blind People’s Association (BPA), fell from the second floor of a building while flying kite. He suffered injuries on head and other parts of the body, officials of 108 Emergency Response Service (ERS) said.
Flake, working with the school since the last 3-4 months, was admitted at the Sterling Hospital here and is under intensive care, they said.
–Agencies