Flash floods caused by torrential rains in a remote village in India-controlled Kashmir have left at least 56 people dead and scores missing, according to authorities.

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

A sudden cloudburst wreaked havoc in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, leaving at least four people dead and several others injured. The disaster struck Janglote village during the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday,

Flash floods and landslides caused widespread havoc across several regions of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Uttarakhand on Sunday, as heavy rainfall relentlessly lashed the states.

Rescue operations are underway in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district following a deadly cloudburst in Chachoti village. According to the report from day four of the operation, over 60 people have died,

Most were killed in flash floods and collapsing houses, while at least 120 others were injured, as Pakistan experienced more rain than usual during the current monsoon season, washing away roads and buildings.

More than 200 people remain missing in one district of north-west Pakistan as a result of devastating monsoon flooding and landslides, an official has said. Flash floods have killed more than 300 people in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir in recent days, with most of the deaths recorded in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

The death toll from flash floods in Pakistan has risen to at least 220, officials said on Saturday, as rescuers scoured remote mountain villages for survivors