Bhubaneswar, Jan 19: A youth was critically injured after his throat slit by glass-coated kite thread in capital city of Odisha, police said on Sunday.

The youth, identified as Bhagi of Khandagiri area, has been admitted to hospital in a critical.

He was running a cycle last evening when a kite string got entangled around his neck and slit his throat.

Bhagi fell on the roadside and some bystanders rushed his to a nearby hospital.