Image copyright AFP Image caption Indian soldiers search for survivors after landslide in Uttarakhand state 
 
 At least 58 people have been killed in northern Pakistan and India by flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains. 
 
 Floods in the Chitral district of Pakistan damaged houses and a mosque killing at least 30, officials said. 
 
 Another 28 are now known to have died in floods and landslides in India's Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh states in recent days. 
 
 Hundreds die in South Asian monsoon season floods every year. 
 
 Bad weather has hampered rescue efforts in both countries. 
 
 Flash floods hit the village of Arsun, in Chitral, overnight from Saturday to Sunday. 
 
 Several people offering special Ramadan evening prayers in the local mosque were killed, local officials said, adding that women and children were among the dead. 
 
 Panic 
 
 A spokesman for the disaster management authority said there was panic in the area as hundreds rushed to flee their homes. 
 
 Dozens of houses were also swept away as well as an army post, leaving eight members of the security forces missing. 
 
 Chitral is a mountainous area in Pakistan's far north, bordering Afghanistan. Flooding in the same area last year left several dead and destroyed bridges. 
 
 In northern India, officials said the death toll after Friday's heavy rains caused flooding and landslides, had risen to 18 in Uttarakhand and 10 in Arunachal Pradesh. 
 
 Image copyright AFP Image caption Floods in Chitral have killed at least 30 people 
 
 Image copyright AFP Image caption At least 15 people have died in the mountainous district of Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand 
 
 Several villages have been buried and a national highway is partially blocked. 
 
 The worst-affected villages in Uttarakhand are in the remote mountainous districts of Pithoragarh and Chamoli, where 18 people have died. 
 
 Many people were trapped under toppled houses and debris from the landslides, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat said. 
 
 Uttarakhand was also badly hit by deadly flooding and landslides in 2013. 
 
 Authorities had confirmed that some 600 people had died in the disaster, but later said more than 5,700 people who went missing in the devastating floods would be presumed dead. ||||| Flash floods, landslides kill at least 50 people in Pakistan, India, officials say 
 
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 Flash floods and landslides have killed at least 50 people in northern Pakistan and northern India, officials say. 
 
 Key points: At least 43 killed in remote Pakistani village 
 
 More than 40 feared dead in India's Uttarakhand state 
 
 Thousands believed to be stranded in India 
 
 At least 43 people were killed in Pakistan, most in a remote village that did not receive an evacuation warning before flash floods hit, washing away most of the settlement, officials said. 
 
 The heavy monsoon rains began late on Saturday and were concentrated mainly in the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which has been badly affected by flooding in recent years that some scientists have linked to climate change. 
 
 The worst-hit district was Chitral, on the country's north-west border with Afghanistan, where the flood waters killed 41 people in the village of Ursoon near the Afghan border, which is home to some 100 families, district mayor Maghfirat Shah said. 
 
 Eighty-two homes in the village were affected by the waters, a rescue services statement said, with some of them swept away, along with a mosque and an army post. 
 
 "Sixteen of the dead were offering prayers in the mosque when it was swept away by the flood," said Latifur Rehman, a spokesman for the provincial disaster management authority. 
 
 At least eight of the victims were soldiers, and another eight bodies were swept over the border into Afghanistan, senior local official Osama Waraich said. 
 
 Mr Rehman said a military-led rescue and relief operation had begun, with helicopters being used to reach the affected people and provide them with tents, food and medical aid. 
 
 Separately, two Chinese engineers were killed and five Pakistani workers injured when the heavy rains caused the roof of a construction site to collapse at Tarbela Dam, also in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Mr Rehman said. 
 
 Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's office issued a statement expressing his grief. 
 
 At least 40 feared dead in India landslides 
 
 Meanwhile, at least 40 people were feared dead following a downpour that triggered flash floods and landslides in India's northern Uttarakhand state over the weekend, a state official said. 
 
 Several more people were still missing, a spokesman at the state chief minister's office, Om Prakash Sati, said on Sunday, with remote Chamoli and Pithoragarh being worst affected districts in the state. 
 
 The state has so far confirmed 18 deaths, of whom 15 were from Pithoragarh. The official toll was expected to rise. 
 
 Thousands were feared stranded as landslides blocked hundreds of roads. State authorities asked people in low-lying areas to evacuate as a precautionary measure. 
 
 Relief operations have begun, but incessant rains have hampered efforts and raised fears of flooding as rivers were close to their danger levels, Mr Sati said. 
 
 "There is no need to panic," Uttarakhand's chief minister Harish Rawat told reporters, adding more teams from the state central authorities and other relief forces had all been kept on high alert as a precautionary measure. 
 
 Several damaged roads have also been repaired, Mr Rawat said. 
 
 AFP/Reuters 
 
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