By our Special Correspondent
Kalpatta, Aug 10 (IVC) The Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi today paid visits to Mundukkai, Choormaala and Punchirimattam in the Wayanad district where devastating landslides took place on July 30 and visited relief camps also today d afternoon.
He was accompanied by Kerala Governor, Muhammed Arif khan, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Tourism, Suresh Gopi .
The death toll in the mishap was 224 person till August 06. While 148 bodies were recovered from Wayanad, 76 bodies had been retrieved from the Chaliyar river in Nilambur, the official sources said.
According to a press statement on Tuesday, 152 persons were missing. As many as 22 unidentified body parts were buried on Tuesday. The official sources said that the possibility of death toll going up could not be ruled out.
Modi visited Mundukkai, Choormala and Punchiri mattam where the fury of landslides was at its maximum level. He had also paid a visit to the relief camps at Meppadi and Vellarmala and enquired of the inmates difficulties. He also called on the injured persons who were hospitalized at nearby Vims hospital and enquired of their problems and consoled them and assured them that all be set right.
Earlier Modi, along with Governor, Chief Minister and Union Minister, had made aerial observations of Mundukkai, Choormala and Punchirimattam and the extent of the intensity of the natural calamity. Afterwards Modi attended a review meeting at the Kalpatta Collectorate. He said all assistances would be rendered to Kerala at this time of pain and afflictions.
The Kerala Government had demanded a special financial assistance of Rs 2000 cres and it also reiterated the earlier demand of declaring the landslides at Mundukkai, Choormala and Punchirimattam a national disaster.
