Durga Puja concludes peacefully with immersion of idols
September 30, 2017  20:02
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The five-day Durga Puja festivities came to an end today with the immersion of idols passing off peacefully.

According to the Kolkata Police, nearly 400 Durga idols were immersed in the city till 6 pm, of the 1,000-odd scheduled for the day, without any untoward incident reported from anywhere.

The organisers of most of the household and community pujas proceeded with the idol immersion at different ghats of the Hooghly river and other waterbodies throughout the state.

Besides the police, personnel from the State Civil Defence, civic bodies, Kolkata Port Trust and River Traffic Police were also deployed to monitor the immersions, while speed boats of the navy kept a vigil.
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