CHOSITI, India (AP) — Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed over 200 people and left scores others missing in India and Pakistan over the past 24 hours, officials said Friday, as rescuers brought to safety some 1,600 people from two mountainous districts in the neighboring countries.

Uttarakhand, the mountainous northern state that hosts Dharali, has been devastated by cloudbursts before. A June 2013 cloudburst killed over 6,000 people in Uttarakhand and surrounding states, becoming the country's worst natural disaster in ten years. In 2021, flash flooding triggered by a cloudburst killed over 200.

India welcomed the Trump–Putin summit in Alaska as a step toward ending the Ukraine war, even as the talks concluded without a breakthrough. Meanwhile, Northern Pakistan has been devastated by flash floods that killed at least 344 people in 48 hours,

Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba expressed condolences over the tragic cloudburst-triggered flash floods in J&K’s Kishtwar that killed 60, as CM Omar Abdullah reviewed rescue and relief efforts.

As flash floods ravaged India's Himalayan region in July and August, footage of a truck narrowly escaping debris from a mountain spread in social media posts claiming it showed the northern state of Himachal Pradesh.

The incident took place in Chositi village, a congested pilgrim route, while a large number of people were gathered.