Pakistan has restored 70% of electricity and reopened damaged roads in the north and northwest after flash floods killed more than 300 people.

Flooding in a northwest Pakistani district has killed at least 220 people, officials said Saturday, as rescuers pulled 63 more bodies overnight from homes flattened by flash floods and landslides. Rescue workers transport the body a victim of Friday’s flash flooding after recovering it from the rubble of a damaged house at Qadir Nagar village near Pir Baba,

Flash floods triggered by intense rain have killed at least 341 people in northwest Pakistan since Friday (August 15), according to authorities. More than 200 fatalities were reported in the Buner district of the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

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.

BUNER, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say recent rain-related incidents have killed at least 220 people in a northwest district. Rescuers pulled out 63 more bodies overnight Friday from homes in Buner devastated by flash floods and landslides.