A 20-year-old man was injured after getting tangled in a loose kite string in the Azizabad area in Karachi on Wednesday, police said.
Central SSP Zeeshan Shafiq Siddiqi said that Awais was riding a motorbike when the string caught him in Mohammadi Colony.
He was shifted to a hospital where his condition was said to be out of danger.
Meanwhile, the Central SSP Siddiqi said they have launched a crackdown against kite flying and manufacturing of kites,
He said the police seized thousands of “dangerous strings” and set them on fire to avoid tragic incidents during their raids in several areas of the district central.
The incident comes after Punjab police intensified crackdown across the province on kite flying after two deaths in Sargodha and Faisalabad due to the strings of stray kites.
The two incidents forced Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz to call a meeting on law and order and crime situation here on Sunday where she ordered a crackdown on the making, selling, and buying of a chemical string.
Following directives the police arrested four persons in Rawalpindi, recovering 340 kites and strings.
Similarly, police arrested 422 kite sellers in Sahiwal and Okara in the operation against kite flying.