Hari Chand mourns the death of his wife during flash floods in Chositi village, in Kishtwar district, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
Photos of mourners and searches for the missing from flash floods in Pakistan and India
Communities in mountainous areas of India and Pakistan are mourning the loss of hundreds of lives due to recent flash floods, with many families holding funerals as the search for those still missing continues.
This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
People attend funeral prayers for the victims of Friday’s flash flooding, at a village near Pir Baba, Buner district, in Pakistan’s northwest, Saturday, Aug.16, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)A volunteer asks residents and tourists to stay calm as local authorities carry out rescue operations after Thursday’s flash floods in Chositi village, Kishtwar district, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)Rescue workers transport the body a victim of Friday’s flash flooding after recovering it from the rubble of a damaged house at Qadir Nagar village near Pir Baba, Buner district, in Pakistan’s northwest, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)Rescue workers transport the body of a victim of Friday’s flash flooding after recovering it from the rubble of a damaged house at Qadir Nagar village near Pir Baba, Buner district, in Pakistan’s northwest, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)A local resident clears the debris and mud from a shop after Friday’s flash flooding on the outskirts of Pir Baba, Buner district, in Pakistan’s northwest, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)People carry bodies of the victims of Friday’s flash flooding, after funeral prayers at a village near Pir Baba, Buner district, in Pakistan’s northwest, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)Local residents walk past shops damaged after Friday’s flash flooding on the outskirts of Pir Baba, Buner district, in Pakistan’s northwest, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)Shoes and other household items are seen on the debris of damaged houses at the incident site of cloudburst that triggered flash flood, in Naryan Behak village near Muzaffarabad, the main town of Pakistan’s controlled Kashmir, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/M.D. Mughal)Local residents look at flash flooding due to heavy rains in a neighborhood of Mingora, the main town of Swat Valley, northwestern Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)Villagers walk across a field carrying wood for mass cremation of people who died during Thursday’s flash flood in Chositi village, Kishtwar district, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)Villagers perform last rites of a woman died in a flash flood in Chositi village, Kishtwar district, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)Villagers perform mass cremation of eight people died in a flash flood on the banks of the river Chenab in Chositi village, Kishtwar district, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)A boy sits in front of shops damaged by Friday’s flash flooding on the outskirts of Pir Baba, Buner district, in Pakistan’s northwest, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)Local residents walk through a street covered with mud after Friday’s flash flooding on the outskirts of Pir Baba, Buner district, in Pakistan’s northwest, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
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