Pakistan Bans Kites After Boy's Throat Cut

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In a followup to yesterday's story, In Pakistan, Fear of Kites as Weapons Nets 1,000 Arrests, we find authorities have banned the flying of kites after a 4-year-old boy's throat was slit by a low-flying, glass-coated kite string.

Also, 21 children and five women were killed when a crowded wedding bus they were riding in hit an anti-tank mine in southwest Pakistan.

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Shayan Ahmad became the seventh kite-string victim in the nation's cultural capital, Lahore, in the past two weeks, prompting the Punjab provincial government to announce the ban late Thursday.

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Pakistan Bans Kites After Boy's Throat Cut
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - -The death of a 4-year-old boy whose throat was slit by a low-flying kite string coated with glass has prompted authorities to forbid kite-flying in eastern Pakistan.

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QUETTA, Pakistan -- A crowded bus carrying a wedding party hit an anti-tank mine Friday in a volatile region of southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 30 people and wounding eight, a doctor and officials said.

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