In the middle of the night, by the glow of their mobile phones, rescuers and villagers dug through the concrete remains of flattened houses after massive rocks crashed down on a remote Pakistani village following a cloudburst.

Pakistan on Tuesday said the death toll in rain-related incidents and floods has increased to 706, as the army intensified relief operations in the worst-affected regions.

Rescue workers on Tuesday recovered more bodies from a mountain village in northwest Pakistan where flash floods triggered by a cloudburst brought down homes and buildings, bringing the death toll there to at least 20,

Rescuers in north-west Pakistan have pulled 63 more bodies from homes flattened by flash floods and landslides, raising the death toll from rain-related incidents to at least 220, officials said.One witness who escaped the deluges in Buner described seeing floodwaters carrying hundreds of boulders and “tons of rocks” crashing down.