Pakistan has issued a flood alert for some southern districts, warning of torrential rains, as rescue teams continued searching for missing people in the northwest, where severe floods have killed hundreds over the past week.

A deluge of rain triggered floods and landslides, sweeping people away and flooding and destroying homes, officials said.

Severe monsoonal flooding has caused widespread devastation across Pakistan, destroying homes and sweeping away entire villages.

Anguished Pakistanis are searching remote areas for bodies swept away by weekend flash floods as the death toll has reached 277.

Pakistan has been grappling with widespread torrential rains in almost all parts of the country that have wreaked havoc and left over 700 people dead and hundreds injured. The deluge crippled the already dilapidated infrastructure, damaging houses, roads, and commercial centres.

His Majesty King Charles III of the United Kingdom has issued a heartfelt message, expressing sorrow over the recent devastating monsoon flooding in Pakistan.

Pakistan has restored 70 percent of electricity service and reopened damaged roads in the north and northwest after flash floods killed more than 300 people, officials say. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Tuesday that engineers were working to fully restore the electricity system that was knocked out by flooding last week.

MUZAFFARABAD: At least ten people, including women and children, were killed as heavy rains triggered flash floods and landslides in Gilgit-Baltistan and parts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir