Manja slits throat, soldier dies in Andhra Pradesh

Naik K Koteshwara Reddy, a 29-year-old Army soldier traveling for work at Military Hospital in Golconda on a two-wheeler, bled to death after a banned nylon manja hanging from a kite and entangled with a lamppost slit his throat on Langar Houz flyover in Hyderabad on Saturday. The soldier, a driver posted in the hospital’s motor transport wing, fell from his scooter when the Chinese manja, a prohibited material in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, caught around his neck.