Authorities are searching for missing people in a remote village in India-controlled Kashmir after flash floods caused by torrential rains.

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

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,