Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi visits landslide-hit areas in Malappuram

Malappuram, Aug 11 (UNI) Congress leader and MP of Wayanad on Sunday visited the landslide-hit areas in Nilambur in Malappuram district of Kerala.

Gandhi who reached Kozhikode proceeded straight away to the relief camp in Pothukallu in Nilambur where the flood-landslide hit people have been rehabilitated since Thursday.

Later, the Congress leader made it to Kavalapara, where a heavy landslide occured on Friday evening in which more than 60 persons were feared trapped under the soil.

The opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala and AICC general secretary K C Venugopal were among the congress leaders who accompanied him.

Gandhi would visit Wayanad on Monday.