Rescuers recovered dozens more bodies from the rubble of collapsed homes in a northwestern district of Pakistan, bringing the death toll to at least 274, as authorities defended their response to the flooding and said they did not need any foreign help at this point.

A new wave of flooding has swept through villages in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

FEMA is expected to perform a damage assessment, the next step toward a presidential disaster declaration that would authorize federal aid.