Officials say rescuers have 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.

The majority of fatalities were recorded in the northwest Buner district, where at least 200 people were killed.

Rescuers were racing against time to find survivors after flash floods killed at least 337 people in Pakistan 's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The northwestern province was struck by cloudbursts and torrential monsoon downpours on Friday, triggering flash floods and landslides in the mountainous Buner district.

Rescuers are searching for over 150 people in northwestern Pakistan reported missing after floods caused by heavy rainfall. By Monday, the death toll from flooding in the mountainous district of

Aziz Ahmed, a local schoolteacher in Buner, northwestern Pakistan said the thunder accompanying recent torrential rains was so loud he thought the "end of the world had come". Water, rocks and trees were swept down the mountainside after two days of intense monsoon rains,

Devastating flash floods in Pakistan have claimed at least 657 lives, including many children, with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province being the hardest hit.

Over 340 people were killed after heavy monsoon rains triggered flash floods across northern Pakistan in the span of two days

Cloudbursts are causing chaos in mountainous parts of India and Pakistan, with tremendous amounts of rain falling in a short period of time over a concentrated area.