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=== At Bijon Setu === | === At Bijon Setu === | ||
==Initial Press | ==Initial Press reports and reactions== | ||
''The Statesman Weekly'', the leading Calcutta newspaper at the time, reported a week after the incident that "Seventeen Ananda Margis, two of them women, were done to death on April 30 morning by frenzied mobs at three places in South Calcutta in the suspicion that they were child-lifters."<ref name=TheStatesmanWeekly1>{{citation | ''The Statesman Weekly'', the leading Calcutta newspaper at the time, reported a week after the incident that "Seventeen Ananda Margis, two of them women, were done to death on April 30 morning by frenzied mobs at three places in South Calcutta in the suspicion that they were child-lifters."<ref name=TheStatesmanWeekly1>{{citation | ||
| publisher=The Statesman Weekly | | publisher=The Statesman Weekly | ||