KANCHANPUR, Sep 15 (TIWN): Incessant rain in past two days has triggered flash floods across Kanchanpur Sub Division of North Tripura District and inundated low-lying areas of Rabindranagar,Santipur,Gopalpur,Ramkrishna Para and Dupatacharra under Kanchanpur subdivisions .

According to official reports, over 1,500 families have been affected by the floods. A stretch of the Agartala-Kanchanpur & Kanchanpur - Dharmanagar roadway has been submerged, throwing traffic out of gear in three places. Revenue officials were ask to take full information about  the flash floods had also damaged huge farm fields. A total of 250 flood-affected families were given shelter in the relief camps opened in the different  areas by the North district administration.

With heavy rainfall lashing various parts of the Sub Division in the past 24 hours, water-levels rise in the river. The authorities have issued an alert.