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DEVELOPING · 18 OCT → 25 OCT 2026 · 8 EDITIONS · 46 OUTLETS

At least 19 killed in crowd crush at Kolkata Durga Puja festival

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 23 46 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 25 Oct 18 Oct 00:15 UTC · At least 17 killed in crush at Durga Puja festival in Kolkata 18 Oct 06:11 UTC · At Least 19 Killed in Crowd Crush at Kolkata Durga Puja Festival 18 Oct 12:10 UTC · At Least 19 Killed in Crowd Crush at Kolkata Durga Puja Festival 18 Oct 18:12 UTC · At least 19 killed in crowd crush at Kolkata Durga Puja festival

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 3 HEADLINES

  1. 18 Oct, 00:15 UTC

    At least 17 killed in crush at Durga Puja festival in Kolkata

  2. 18 Oct, 06:11 UTC

    At Least 19 Killed in Crowd Crush at Kolkata Durga Puja Festival

  3. 18 Oct, 18:12 UTC

    At least 19 killed in crowd crush at Kolkata Durga Puja festival

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • 25 hurt stampede · 9 outlets
  • Durga Puja · 6 outlets
  • 19 people killed · 5 outlets
  • Narendra Modi · 4 outlets
  • 19 dead stampede · 4 outlets
  • 25 other people · 3 outlets
  • Madhya Pradesh · 3 outlets
  • Suvendu Adhikari · 2 outlets

Entered the story later

  • 13 people when · from 18 Oct 07:02, 3 outlets
  • Droupadi Murmu · from 18 Oct 07:02, 3 outlets
  • 13 people died · from 18 Oct 07:02, 2 outlets

Figures reported with different numbers

  • people killed: 121 (3 from 17 Oct 19:19) → 36 (2 from 17 Oct 19:48) → 19 (5 from 17 Oct 23:31) → 17 (2 from 18 Oct 03:15)
  • people injured: 17 (1 from 17 Oct 19:48) → 30 (2 from 17 Oct 19:48) → 40 (1 from 18 Oct 03:30)
  • injured truck: 40 (3 from 18 Oct 03:30) → 30 (1 from 18 Oct 07:15)
  • people died: 17 (1 from 17 Oct 19:37) → 13 (2 from 18 Oct 07:02)

Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.