13 held for selling Chinese kite strings

The city police in Vadodara, India, have been cracking down on the sale of chinese kite strings in the city in the past one week. On Thursday, police raided 62 different spots and registered eight cases against people found selling these glasscoated stringsthirteen persons were arrested and kite strings worth over Rs 1 lakh were seized in these raids. The police have warned shop owners not to stock or sell the banned chinese kite strings. The mahisagar police too launched a drive and seized chinese kite strings worth over Rs 21 lakh and also arrested four people in this connection. Instead of the regular cotton thread chinese kite strings, these strings are nylon or synthetic ones which are treated with glass to make them sharper. Some strings are also made from monofilament and coated with glass. These strings are very strong and can cause fatal injuries to birds as well as humans.