LUCKNOW, Feb. 6 -- A series of accidents triggered by nylon kite string were reported from Lucknow, Jaunpur, Varanasi, Shahjahanpur, and Gorakhpur in the past one year, claiming at least six lives and causing multiple injuries.

Three incidents were reported in Lucknow in December 2025 and February this year. A 33-year-old medical representative was the latest to succumb to injuries caused by a nylon kite string on Wednesday.

All such cases reported to police in the recent past made no headway as FIRs were registered only against "unidentified" people and there was not a single arrest in any of these cases, according to an HT status check based on information provided by the respective police stations.

Senior police officials said, in m...