Tripura flash floods

While parts of India have just started enjoying the monsoon , Tripura has already been hit by its fury...thousands of people are homeless...its an annual phenomenon...we have a spl report from the flood hit interior areas...

VO 1

A trail of destruction left behind by a cyclone on National Highway No. 44.... that connects Assam to Tripura...

(breathe shots of destruction)

Other parts of Tripura are cut off either due to landslides or flash floods...

With great difficulty we reached Teliamura.... where several houses have been swept away... More than 500 families have moved to a temporary shelter....

Vox Pop: Sheuli Bhowmik Flood victim in the vernacular

"Three houses on this side, two here and two there are all swept off..."

VO 2

The rain has subsided... the wind has lost its speed... but over 3000 families have been affected across the state...

As per initial reports... 2 persons have died... The government has declared an alert...

This man lost his home... but is grateful that his family is safe...

Vox Pop: Amrit Das Flood Victim in the vernacular

"All gone somehow saved my god hope he saves us now"

VO 3

Over 550 mm of rainfall has been recorded in the last three days.... Four districts have been badly hit.... 5 rivers are still swollen....

Many villages along the Bangladesh border in Bishalgarh have been innundated...

VoxPop: Farmer in the vernacular

"All crop gone...we had taken loans from moneylenders ..we are the worst sufferers"

Wiith Dipankar Sengupta in Teliamura, Kalyanpur and Khowai in ghy Kishalay Bhattacharjee for ndtv