Pakistan rescuers recover bodies after monsoon rains kill at least 320
Rescuers were struggling to retrieve bodies from debris after flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across northern Pakistan killed at least 320 people in the past 48 hours, authorities said on Saturday.
The majority of deaths, 307, were reported in mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority said.
Most were killed in flash floods and collapsing houses, with the dead including 15 women and 13 children. At least 23 others were injured.
The provincial government has declared the severely affected mountainous districts of Buner, Bajaur, Swat, Shangla, Mansehra and Battagram as disaster-hit areas.
The meteorological department has issued a heavy rain alert for Pakistan's northwest for the next few hours, urging people to take "precautionary measures".
Nine more people were killed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, while five died in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, the national disaster authority said.
Another five people, including two pilots, were killed when a local government helicopter crashed due to bad weather during a relief mission on Friday.
(Source: AFP)
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