In Pakistan, a single cloudburst in the northwestern district of Buner claimed the lives of as many as 300 people. The sheer force of the deluge triggered flash flooding, landslides, and mudflows, with boulders crashing down steep slopes to flatten homes and reduce entire villages to rubble.

Officials say rescuers have recovered dozens more bodies from collapsed homes in a northwestern district of Pakistan, bringing the death toll to at least 274, as authorities defended their response to the flooding.

Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Asim Munir has repeated his assertion that Kashmir is Pakistan’s “jugular vein”, warning that Islamabad will defend its water rights “at all costs”. His latest remarks came while addressing the Pakistani diaspora in Tampa, Florida, during his ongoing official visit to the United States.

Rescuers in northwest Pakistan pulled 63 more bodies overnight from homes flattened by landslides and flash floods, raising the death toll from rain-related incidents to at least 220