New Delhi: In a tragic incident, a four-year-old girl died after her throat was slit by Chinese manjha in North East Delhi’s Khajuri Khas on Saturday.
The deceased identified as Ishika Kumar Sharma was on her way to a temple with her family on a two-wheeler when the accident took place.
Ishika's father Girish Kumar Sharma said, "Me along with my two daughters and wife were going to a temple near ISBT from our house in Sonia Vihar to celebrate Janmashtami. Ishika, who was in front of me, suddenly screamed. After I applied brakes, I saw cuts on her neck and blood oozing out. I didn’t understand what had happened, then I saw that a manjha had got stuck in her neck."
She was immediately rushed to the Jag Pravesh hospital where she was declared dead by the doctors due to excessive loss of blood.
Despite the nationwide ban on the procurement, shopkeepers largely ignore the SC directive on sale and use of the Chinese manjha.
Similar incidents happened earlier in August, when a 28-year-old civil engineer Manav Sharma died after a Chinese manjha allegedly slit his throat while he riding a two-wheeler in Paschim Vihar.
He was on his way to celebrate Rakhi with his family when the incident took place.
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