Pakistan has restored 70% of electricity and reopened damaged roads in the north and northwest after flash floods killed more than 300 people.

"I thought it was doomsday." At least 350 are dead and 200 remain missing following devastating flash flood: 'Like it was the end of the world' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Heavier than usual rains and sudden cloudbursts during this monsoon season kill more than 300 people in recent days.

BUNER, Pakistan (Reuters) -Residents of a northwestern Pakistani district where devastating floods have killed more than 200 people said on Monday they were too scared to go back to their deluged homes as authorities warned of more rains to come.

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By Sunday morning, the death toll from the rains across the mountainous north of Pakistan had risen to at least 337 people, with most killed in flash floods, according to the National Disaster Management Authority. In Buner, a three-and-a-half-hour drive from the capital Islamabad, 207 lives were lost and others are still missing.

Across Pakistan, monsoon rains that began in late June have been heavier than usual, killing at least 645 people. Four hundred of those deaths were in the northwest alone, where narrow valleys and river-carved gorges funnel rainwater into sudden torrents.

Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif is on a visit to flood-hit Buner district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He took an aerial view of the flood situation and damages in the affected areas of Buner and Shangla. Federal Ministers Attaullah Tarar, Amir Muqam and Ahsan Iqbal are also accompanying the Prime Minister.

With villages swept away and Pakistan’s largest city assailed by monsoon floods, climate change has brought a catastrophic new normal to the country.

The catastrophic flood in Buner district that caused tragic loss of over 200 lives and widespread damage to property, has also