Following incessant rain across Kashmir last night, the water level in the Jhelum touched the danger mark this afternoon, prompting the authorities to sound a flood alert. Though the weather conditions improved later, the upper reaches in the Valley witnessed the first snowfall of the season, reports reaching here said. Heavy rain triggering flash floods wreaked havoc on the Baragam, Nawdal and Yangwani areas of Tral in Pulwama district, officials said. A steel bridge at Batgund was washed away and the Lam Nullah inundated Yangerwani village. Flood waters also damaged eight shops at Hud village in Kupwara district. At Khushipora, the flood channel was breached at Kumhar Mohalla, the officials said. The Chief Engineer, Irrigation and Flood Control, Kashmir, has sounded a flood alert and directed all the Zonal Flood Committees to establish control rooms. The people have been asked not to panic. The affected families in Tral were shifted to safer locations and provided temporary shelters and free ration. The locals at Baragam requested the rescue teams to remove tree stumps that had blocked the flow of a nullah near the bridge. A report from Jammu said three persons, including two brothers, were washed away in flash floods in Poonch district today. The police said Mohmmad Taj and his brother, Afzal Razzaq, who tried to cross a rivulet in Surankote tehsil were washed away in the flash floods. In another incident, a 16-year-old girl, Tazeem, who was crossing a nullah in the Sabzian sector of Poonch district, was washed away in the flash floods.