Hyderabad: An army man died after sustaining injuries when a 'manja' string of a kite allegedly slit his throat while he was riding a two-wheeler on a flyover here, police said on Sunday.

The incident happened on Saturday evening when the army man, aged around 30, came in contact with the 'manja' thread which is suspected to have cut his throat, resulting in bleeding, a senior police official said.

 

''He suffered a cut-throat injury. He was shifted to a hospital where he died while undergoing treatment,'' the official said.

A native of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, he worked as a driver at the Military Hospital here, the official said.

A case was registered at Langar House Police Station.

 

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Patna (PTI): The body of a Bihar Police personnel was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in his barracks here, a senior officer said on Sunday.

Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Kartikeya Sharma said a havildar with Bihar State Armed Police-1, popularly known as "Gorkha battalion", died allegedly by suicide as he had been suffering from some ailment.

The deceased left behind "two suicide notes", one in Hindi and the other in his native language Nepali.

"From the suicide notes, it appears that Navraj Sunar, the deceased havildar, had been suffering from some ailment which had caused him much mental anguish and may have driven him to take the extreme step," the SSP said.

The body was being sent to the native village of the deceased in Nepal after a post-mortem examination, while further investigations were on, with forensic experts inspecting the site of the incident.