Mumbai: A total of 700 bird injuries were recorded in the last two days of the kite flying festival in MMR, even as the Mumbai police booked 23 persons for the illegal use of nylon manja to fly kites.

Animal activists have rescued more than 60 birds injured by kite 'manjha' in Mumbai as part of a three-day drive during the Makar Sankranti celebrations, a wildlife welfare group representative ...