Flooding in a northwest Pakistani district has killed at least 220 people, officials said Saturday, as rescuers pulled 63 more bodies overnight from homes flattened by flash floods and landslides. Rescue workers transport the body a victim of Friday’s flash flooding after recovering it from the rubble of a damaged house at Qadir Nagar village near Pir Baba,

Across Pakistan, monsoon rains that began in late June have been heavier than usual, killing at least 645 people. Four hundred of those deaths were in the northwest alone, where narrow valleys and river-carved gorges funnel rainwater into sudden torrents.

Over past 24 hours, monsoon rain-triggered floods killed 50 more people across country, mostly in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province - Anadolu Ajansı

Pakistani officials said Tuesday the death toll from flooding and landslides caused by five days of torrential rains in the north of the country rose to nearly 400.

Massive, sudden downpours of rain known as cloudbursts have struck Pakistan and India during this monsoon season, killing hundreds of people in the flash floods and landslides they have triggered.

Sudden floods triggered by heavy rains have killed more than 200 people across parts of Pakistan, India-administered Kashmir and Nepal, authorities have said, as scores of people remain missing.

According to the National Disaster Agency, the intensity of this year's monsoon is about 50% to 60% higher than last year.

Cloudbursts are causing chaos in mountainous parts of India and Pakistan, with tremendous amounts of rain falling in a short period of time over a concentrated area. As many as 300 people died in one northwestern Pakistani district,

Rescuers are searching for over 150 people in northwestern Pakistan reported missing after floods caused by heavy rainfall. By Monday, the death toll from flooding in the mountainous district of