Tripura CM, cabinet colleague visit quake-hit areas

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and Revenue Minister Badal Chowdhury today visited the quake-affected areas in Dhalai and Unakoti districts in state and asked the district administration to help the affected people.
A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter Scale and epicentred in Tripura jolted the state yesterday triggering landslides and leaving a woman dead and four others injured.
Sarkar and Chowdhury first visited Shantipur village in Pencharthal block of Unakoti district where 48 mud houses collapsed and 155 houses partly damaged.
Then he visited Chhoto Surma, Bali Gaon, Natun Bagan and Noagaon Junior Basic School of Dhalai district by helicopter.

An estimated 174 people of 40 families were rendered homeless and took refuge in Noagaon J B School.
They also visited the house of 50-year-old Kamalini Kanda who died of heart attack at Natun Bagan village during the earthquake.

Altogether, 591 houses collapsed and one woman died in Dhalai district due to tremor.
Sarkar assured the villagers that their houses would be either newly constructed or repaired soon and necessary financial help would be extended to them.
According to the National Centre for Seismology, the epicentre of the temblor which occurred at 2:39 pm was in Dhalai district in Tripura at a depth of 28 km.