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Maharashtra: Youth dies after choked by kite thread

Nashik, Jan 14 (UNI) A twenty-three-year-old youth riding a two-wheeler in Maharashtra's Nashik district died after a nylon Kite thread got stuck in his neck on Tuesday, police said,
The deceased youth has been identified as Sonu Dhotre, who had come to Nashik from Valsad in Gujarat for Sankranti. He was to get married four months later.
The incident occurred around 12:30 p,m, while Dhotre was crossing the Chauphuli of Pathardigaon village on his two-wheeler.
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