The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday described the Kerala landslide in Wayanad district as a "terrible tragedy" of such magnitude in a single area that the state has not seen till now, and said that it should be treated differently, reported the PTI.

Rahul Gandhi said that he was going to raise the matter in Delhi and also with Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan as "this is a different level of tragedy and should be treated differently".