India, Oct. 18 -- justify;">The West Bengal government will set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by a sitting judge of the Calcutta high court to probe the stampede at a Durga Puja in Kolkata that has left 19 people dead so far, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said, even as seven people were arrested.

Two of the devotees killed in the stampede are from Muzaffarpur in Bihar, the chief minister said, adding: "Some families have lost more than one member in the stampede".

The stampede occurred around 7.30pm on Saturday at Chor Bagan, one of the city's most popular Durga Puja venues, in cramped north Kolkata, as crowds jostled through a narrow bylane on Saptami, the seventh day of the festival, even as rain lashed the city and l...