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Flash floods triggered by torrential rains killed over 200 people across India and Pakistan, with rescuers searching for at least 80 missing in a remote Himalayan village where cloudbursts devastated a Hindu pilgrimage site.
A relief helicopter carrying supplies to flood-hit areas in Pakistan’s northwest crashed on Friday due to bad weather, killing all five people aboard, including two pilots.
In India-controlled Kashmir, at least 60 people died and 80 remained missing after flash floods struck the remote village of Chositi, where more than 200 Hindu pilgrims were eating at a community kitchen when floodwaters swept down the mountain.
At least 50 seriously injured people were treated in local hospitals, many of them rescued from a stream filled with mud and debris.
Disaster management official Mohammed Irshad said the number of missing people could increase. — EuroNews
