Chennai: A three-year-old boy died after a glass-coated manja thread slit his throat while he was riding back home on a bike with his parents in Chennai.

According to a report in the Indian Express, the incident was caught on CCTV camera where the boy, identified as Abhimanyu was seen travelling on the bike with his parents Gopal and Smithra. The father noticed that the boy was bleeding from his throat, who then rushed the toddler to a hospital, with the help of passers-by. The doctors then informed them that Abhimanyu succumbed to his injury.