Four-year-old girl dies in freak kite accident

A young girl riding on a motorcycle with her father in New Delhi has died after a glass-coated kite string slit her throat, reports said, the second incident in a week.

The four-year-old was travelling to a temple in India's capital when nearly half her neck was cut by the string, according to the Times of India.

The child was taken to the Jag Pravesh Chandra Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.