A 21-year-old man lost his life after a kite string cut his neck while he was riding his two-wheeler in Borivali on Sunday. The victim, identified as Mohammed Saif Israil Farooque, a resident of Dharavi and an AC mechanic, was returning home around 3.15 pm when the incident occurred on the Borivli East-West flyover bridge near Sumer Nagar.

According to the Borivli police, Farooque had gone to Charkop for an AC repair job with his friend Hameed Anees Ahmad, 19. While returning, Farooque was riding and Hameed was the pillion rider. Farooque, who was wearing a helmet, reached the Sumer Nagar flyover bridge en route to the Western Express Highway when a kite string sliced through his throat.