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At least 360 die, 150 missing in Pakistan-India floods

Thousands of rescuers are searching for survivors, with countless people still buried under debris

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‘Flood of boulders’: intense rain triggers deadly flooding in northwest Pakistan

‘Flood of boulders’: intense rain triggers deadly flooding in northwest Pakistan
Flash floods triggered by heavy rains have killed more than 360 people in Pakistan and India and led to severe devastation across the South Asian region.

At least 307 people have died and 23 have been injured in Pakistan, according to the latest details from the nation’s National Disaster Management Authority.

Meanwhile, around 60 people were killed and more than 60 were missing in India’s northernmost region of Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah told reporters on Saturday.

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Local police and other agencies were conducting search and rescue operations in the region of Kishtwar in India, about 200km (124 miles) from Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir. Authorities were continuing to search for scores of people still buried under the debris.

Onlookers gather near a destroyed bridge after flash floods on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Photo: TNS
Onlookers gather near a destroyed bridge after flash floods on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Photo: TNS

Pakistani authorities had warned that landslides were likely to increase in the country’s northern regions in the event of more rain. They also advised tourists to avoid travelling to the area for the next five or six days.

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Pakistan has rescued more than 2,000 people stranded in the floods so far, according to posts by the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the hardest-hit region.

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