The youngsters were looking out of car sunroofs when the string got caught around their necks in two separate incidents.

By Neville Lazarus, India Producer

Two children have died in India after the glass-coated string used to fly kites slashed their throats.

Both incidents happened in Delhi when the youngsters were looking out from a car's sunroof.

In the first instance, three-year-old Sanchi Goyal was out for a drive with her parents.

As she peered out of the roof, the razor sharp thread from a nearby kite sliced through her throat.

She died in her mother's lap, before they reached hospital.

In another case, a four-year-old boy called Harry was travelling with his parents and sister when he too looked out from the sunroof.

A kite maker works in his workshop in New Delhi

He was thrown back down on to the seat almost immediately, bleeding heavily from his neck after a kite string cut deep into his flesh.

He later died in hospital.

Police have registered a case against an unidentified individual, but authorities say it is very difficult to establish blame.

In recent years, cheap synthetic and nylon kite strings from China have flooded Indian markets.

The imported product is coated with powdered glass, making it both extremely sharp and strong.

The Delhi government is going to impose a ban on its sale and use, with people violating the ban facing up to five years in jail and a fine.

It is also a problem elsewhere in India. Police raided shops selling the string in the northeastern city of Rampur after a 23-year-old man, Anas Shamsi, died when his throat was sliced as he was riding his motorcycle.

The skies of Delhi and other cities are dotted with colourful kites during August as thousands of children and adults fly them.

But the pastime has become more dangerous because of "kite fights" that take place mid-air, with rivals attempting to cut through the strings of their opponents' kites.

Animal rights activists are also concerned, calling for a ban on the flying of kites after a number of birds were killed or injured.

Infographic: The Global Hospitality Index

To mark World Refugee Day, the United Nations Refugee Agency today released its annual Global Trends report, which finds that a record 65.3 million people were displaced last year. (That’s about one out of every 113 people worldwide.) Though the statistics are staggering, U.N. Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon—once a refugee himself—has pleaded with world leaders to see this as “not just a crisis of numbers” but as “a crisis of solidarity.”

Yet it turns out that solidarity might not be a rare commodity after all. A global survey of 27,680 ordinary citizens in 27 countries, commissioned by Amnesty International over the first half of 2016, found that fully 80 percent of people "would welcome refugees with open arms,” with many going so far as to “take them into their own homes.”

In a statement, Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s secretary general, said:

“These figures speak for themselves. People are ready to make refugees welcome, but governments’ inhumane responses to the refugee crisis are badly out of touch with the views of their own citizens… Too often they use xenophobic anti-refugee rhetoric to chase approval ratings. This survey suggests they are not listening to the silent majority of welcoming citizens who take the refugee crisis personally.”

Russia bottoms out the list as the least welcoming country—not exactly unexpected, given NATO’s claims that it is “weaponizing” Syrian refugees. Yet overall, the index reveals a number of positive surprises. Despite an election season awash in anti-refugee rhetoric, the United States ranks in the top 10. Germany, praised for accepting over 1 million refugees in 2015—more than any other European nation—nearly tops the list, but isn’t number one. And though China’s leaders have essentially refused to host Syrian refugees, its citizens are much more hospitable than anyone could have guessed.

How welcoming is your country? Find out in the infographic above. And if you’d like to join the United Nations in standing #WithRefugees, pledge your support today.