Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday visited Rae Bareli to meet those injured in the NTPC boiler explosion and said his party will demand a probe into the incident.

Taking a break from his Gujarat election tour, the Congress vice president arrived here this morning and visited postmortem house, district hospital and NTPC premises and enquired about the incident from officers present. He was accompanied by senior party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and Congress state president Raj Babbar.