AGARTALA: The rain-related toll in Tripura has risen to 20 with the death of 10 more people in two districts of Tripura on Thursday. While seven people from two tribal families died in a landslide in South Tripura district, three others, including a TSR jawan, drowned in Sepahijala.
Chief minister Dr Manik Saha has announced an ex gratia of Rs 4 lakh to the next of the kin of each victim.
According to police reports, a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall buried a house in the Ashwini Tripura locality of Gardang panchayat, Santirbazar early in the morning. The deceased have been identified as Umacharan Tripura (25), Mandira Tripura (23), Prasenjit Tripura (21), Ajay Tripura (16), Rakesh Tripura (18), Jyotika Tripura (21) and Kumtuisa Tripura (3), a 3-year-old child.
Several other family members were injured in the incident and are currently receiving treatment at a local hospital. Sukhen, an injured survivor, said, “We lost seven people — three of my sons, one daughter-in-law, one granddaughter, my younger brother, and his wife.” In Debipur of Sepahijala, two persons were swept away in floodwaters on Thursday afternoon when they were fishing. A TSR jawan of the same village died after he slipped into floodwater near his house. The three bodies are yet to be located, police said.
Earlier, nine people were killed in landslides in South Tripura, Gomati, and Khowai districts and a woman was swept away by floodwaters in Khowai district.
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