A kite string claimed the life of a 10-year-old girl in Sharifabad area of Karachi on Sunday, police said.

According to police, Tayaba Afzal was travelling on a motorbike along with her father on Sir Shah Suleman Road when a stray kite string cut her neck.

She was rushed to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced her dead.

Relatives told the media that the ambulance, which carried the injured girl, remained stuck in a traffic jam reportedly due to an alleged illegal cattle pen on a road between Gharibabad and Liaquatabad area.

They demanded action against the manufacturing of such deadly strings in Karachi, similar to the action in Lahore.

Meanwhile, Sharifabad SHO Azeem Baig said that the girl's father, Afzal, told police that he did not want to pursue the case and refused to register a first information report (FIR).

Sui Southern Gas Company booked over unintentional murder

Sher Shah police on Sunday registered a case against Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) over charges of unintentional murder of two youths who died of gas leakage in a warehouse on Saturday afternoon, according to officials.

Karachi police on Sunday clarified that it was not a gas cylinder explosion which claimed the lives of two youths and injured three others including an infant baby. Instead, it was gas leakage from a gas pipeline, which triggered a big explosion when a warehouse was filled with gas in the Sher Shah area, taking human lives and causing substantive damages to the property there.

Sher Shah SHO Mukhtiar Ahmed Panhwar said that the police registered an FIR on the complaint of Muhammad Arshad, uncle of one of the deceased, under sections 322 (punishment for qatl-bis-sabab), 324 (attempt to commit qatl-i-amd) and 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

The complainant in his statement before police said that since more than a month ago, gas leakage had occurred in the SSGC gas line. He claimed that they had complained verbally and in writing before the company but the SSGC did not rectify the problem, which reportedly led to the tragedy on Saturday.