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Hooghly Crash Kills Three Durga Puja Volunteers and Injures Three

Investigators are probing speeding with possible alcohol use after the car hit roadside bricks near the Chandannagar rail overbridge.

Overview

  • Six members of the Shankarbati Barowari Durga Puja Committee were returning from Patuapara late Friday when their car lost control descending the Chandannagar rail overbridge at Anantapur.
  • Two occupants died at the scene and a third died at Chandannagar Sub-Divisional Hospital, with the remaining three under treatment in Chinsurah and one referred to SSKM Hospital in Kolkata.
  • The deceased have been identified as Bhaskar Debdhara, 29, Pritam Chakraborty, 30, and Swapan Dey, 40.
  • Chandannagar and Polba police stations responded, recovered the vehicle, and scheduled autopsies at Chinsurah Imambara Hospital.
  • Police cite preliminary evidence of speeding, and liquor bottles were found in the car as the formal investigation continues.