Gobindapur and Hurua villages of North Tripura district were submerged when a portion of the embankment was washed away in the flash flood triggered by incessant rain yesterday displacing the people belonging to 76 families, the sources said.
The displaced have taken shelter at Kalacherra Higher Secondary School and Govindapur Manipuri Mandap.
Food and cash were being distributed among them, the sources said.
State Social Welfare minister Bijita Nath visited the affected areas and the relief camps today, the sources said
The embankment was being repaired, the sources said.
