Volunteers treat an in jured bird at a camp in Vadodara on Thursday
Rajkot/Surat: A 21-year-old engineering student riding an Activa on 150 feet Ring Road in Rajkot city on Thursday fell prey to the deadly manja thread, which slit his neck leaving him severely bleeding from the wound on the road. He later succumbed at the hospital. Around 32 other people too received injuries on Uttarayan day.
According to sources, deceased Utsav Vyas, studying Diploma in Engineering in Mumbai and a resident of Nandanvan Vatika in Rajkot city was going towards Raiya Exchange circle on Friday when the incident happened. His father Chetan Vyas works in a private firm in Rajkot.