Flash floods caused by torrential rains in Indian-controlled Kashmir have left at least 56 people. One official says rescue teams scouring the devastated Himalayan village of Chositi brought at least 300 people to safety.

More than three dozen people are dead after a cloudburst triggered a flash flood in Kashmir and other nearby areas.

Rescue operation in the region is underway as teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), and J&K's SDRF along with Indian Army, and local police are carrying out the operation. Read on:

At least 56 people are feared dead in a flash flood triggered by sudden heavy rain that devastated a remote village in the restive Himalayan region of India-administered Kashmir.

Watch harrowing live videos of the Kishtwar cloudburst and flash floods that have killed 60, injured 100+, and left many missing, devastating Machail Mata Yatra pilgrims.

Rescuers were continuing to search on Monday for more than 150 people still missing in northwestern Pakistan after days of torrential rain caused flash floods that have killed more than 270 people.