Bengaluru, Jan. 14 -- A 48-year-old man died on Wednesday, January 14, after the deadly Chinese manja caused a deep cut on his neck while he was riding his bike near the Talamadagi village bridge in Karnataka's Bidar district.

Videos shared on the internet show him lying in a pool of blood as he tries to make a call to his daughter. The deceased, identified as Sanjukumar Gundappa Hosamani, was reportedly travelling to Humnabad to bring his daughter home from a hostel for the Sankranti festival break.

The incident occurred in Chitguppa when the glass-laced kite string hanging across the road got entangled around Hosamani's neck while he was riding his motorcycle. The string slit his throat, leading him to fall on the road and bleed heavi...