Rescue workers retrieved more bodies from mud, slush and debris in the cloudburst-hit Kishtwar region of Indian Kashmir on Friday, raising the death toll to 50. At least 167 people have been rescued,

Flash floods caused by torrential rains in a remote village in India-controlled Kashmir have left at least 44 people dead, authorities said Thursday, as rescue teams scouring the devastated Himalayan village brought at least 200 people to safety.

Hundreds more were missing, many of them Hindu pilgrims, after a cloudburst triggered flooding in mountainous terrain.