Most of the deaths were recorded by disaster authorities in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in north-west Pakistan. At least 74 homes have been damaged, while a rescue helicopter crashed during operations, killing its five crew.

Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba expressed condolences over the tragic cloudburst-triggered flash floods in J&K’s Kishtwar that killed 60, as CM Omar Abdullah reviewed rescue and relief efforts.

Hundreds more were missing, many of them Hindu pilgrims, after a cloudburst triggered flooding in mountainous terrain.