LUCKNOW, Feb. 5 -- At 33, Mohammad Shoaib was in the prime of life with hopes and dreams threaded together by a loving family and a profession that kept him busy till deadly, prohibited nylon kite string cut deep into his neck and caused his death in Lucknow on Wednesday.

The afternoon tragedy followed a mundane morning till when all appeared to be well for the medical representative with a leading pharmaceutical company.

Having set out for work on his bike, the young man from Dubagga met a few people and was passing through Haiderganj overbridge under the Bazaar Khala police station limits when his neck got caught in nylon kite string, making him lose his balance. He fell on the ground, bleeding profusely for 10 minutes on the road, be...