{
  "id": 16176298,
  "title": "Kolkata Durga Puja Stampede: Accused’s Wife Alleges Senior Committee Officials Told Him To Make False Collapse Announcement",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/kolkata-durga-puja-stampede-accuseds-wife-alleges-senior-committee",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-23T10:24:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/kolkata-durga-puja-stampede-accuseds-wife-alleges-senior-committee-officials-told-him-to-make-false-collapse-announcement"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The wife of Babu Majumdar, one of the accused arrested in connection with the deadly stampede at the Chorbagan Sarbojanin Durga Puja pandal in north Kolkata, has alleged that senior puja committee officials instructed her husband to announce that the pandal was collapsing and later advised him to go into hiding. The stampede, which occurred on October 17, 2026, killed 19 devotees and left several…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}