Toll in rain-fed calamity rose to ten.

Agartala, Jun 15 : The flood situation at Kailashahar in North Tripura District deteriorated today as the toll in the current rain-fed calamity in Tripura rose to ten.

Official sources said while two people, including a child, had died after they were swept away by the water of the surging river, one person was killed and four were injured in lightning in different places of the state.

The sources, however, said that the flood situation in Dharmanagar area, also in North Tripura, had improved today with respite in rain.

They said over 6,000 people had taken shelter in 19 relief camps in Dharmanagar sub-division.

Meanwhile, supply of essential commodities, including petrol, diesel, kerosene and cooking gas, was affected in Tripura because of disruption railway and road services due to flood and landslides on the National Highway No 44 in Meghalay and Tripura.

Mizoram, Tripura, Barak Valley of Assam and parts of Manipur remained cut-off from the rest of the country by roads for the second day today following landslides on the National Highway No 44 at Sonapur in Meghalaya's Jaintia Hills.

UNI