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.

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.

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 32 people have been killed in flash floods caused by torrential rains in a remote, mountainous village in Indian-controlled Kashmir, a disaster management official has said. Mohammed Irshad said on Thursday that rescue teams scouring the devastated Himalayan village of Chositi brought at least 100 people to safety.

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

Flash floods caused by torrential rains in Indian-controlled Kashmir have left at least 44 people. One official says rescue teams scouring the devastated Himalayan village of Chositi brought at least