LUCKNOW, Feb. 6 -- It was a cruel irony of fate that Mohammed Shoaib, who died due to nylon manjha (nylon kite string) on Wednesday, loved flying kites.

He enjoyed the sight of colourful kites in the winter sky, never imagining that an almost invisible kite string would one day cut short his own life, his family and friends said.

A day after his death, his funeral procession passed through Dubagga's Sheet Vihar Colony on Thursday. As his body reached home after the post-mortem examination, scenes of grief unfolded inside the two-storey house he had bought barely five months ago.

"He loved kites since childhood and he would wait for winter weekends to fly them," said his brother- in-law Afsar Khan.

His body was placed in a room on the ...