February 7, 2005

Extreme Kite Flying

Posted by ryan at 03:05 PM in holy shit . | 1 Comments

Seventeen people, including four children, were killed and more than 600 injured during the annual kite-flying festival of Basant in Lahore on Sunday.

The two-day festival marking the start of spring began on Saturday evening with thousands of revellers perched on rooftops.

The dead or injured fell victim to a variety of accidents. Some fell from rooftops, while others were electrocuted by metal wire they used to fly kites, hit by stray bullets and run over by vehicles while trying to catch stray kites.

Stray bullets?! WTF kind of kite flying is this?!

Comments

sounds kinda like kite flying season in india... they get kites with glass-laced strings and battle with them. The glass is for cutting your opponent's kite from its string. My indian friends mentioned bloody fingers from the glass, but no stray bullets...

Posted by: gizmo at February 7, 2005 6:47 PM