00:00We are standing right outside the Chhorbagan Durga Puja Pandal where a stampede took place
00:05earlier this evening. You can see behind me massive police deployed at this point in time.
00:11At the same time there are disaster management teams, there are fire services teams which have
00:15also been pressed into action because all those people, there are 35 people as far the police is
00:20concerned who have been injured and have been rushed to the local Kolkata Medical College
00:25Hospital and 17 people have been reported dead in this incident, an unprecedented incident
00:31during the Durga Puja celebrations in Kolkata, something that we have not heard in our recent
00:39memory. You can see behind me this is the lane which takes you inside the police, inside Chhorbagan Durga Puja
00:48and you can see serial police officials, senior police officials are continuously arriving
00:54and they are trying to take stock of the situation at this point in time.
01:00We are seeing senior police officials here, senior police officials are one by one entering the
01:09location at this point in time to take stock of the situation. This of course is an unprecedented
01:15incident never heard of in the recent memory of Durga Puja celebrations here in Kolkata. Today of course
01:23is Mahasaptami. In a sense the beginning of Durga Puja there was massive rush we are told in this part
01:32this is central Kolkata right next to Ram Mandir on Central Avenue and we are told that there was a
01:39massive
01:39crowd it rained heavily this evening as you can see the roads are still wet and that's when there was
01:46a rush
01:47inside the Pandal to enter the Pandal and that led to this very very unfortunate incident in which we are
01:53told right now that 17 people have died and 35 people have been injured. Indraji reporting for India today in
02:01Kolkata.
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