Sudden floods in the cashmere controlled by the Indians leave 34 dead and more than 200,000 displaced

Intense rains left at least 34 dead after hitting parts of Pakistan and India and sparked sudden floods and field landslides controlled by India, officials announced on Wednesday.

More than 200,000 people in Pakistan were moved and the sanctuary of the founder of the Sikh religion, one of the most visited sanctuaries in northern India, was overwhelmed.

The forecasters say that the rain will continue throughout the region this week. Heavy showers and sudden floods in the Himalayan region killed nearly 100 people in August.

Part of a mountain side in the jammu region of cashmere under Indian control collapsed on a popular Hindu pilgrimage route after heavy rains in the Katra region on Tuesday evening. Devots had made trekking to reach the temple at the top of the hill, officials said.

The bodies of most of the pilgrimage victims have been recovered under debris, according to the disaster management manager Mohammed Irshad, who said that at least 18 other people had been injured and transported in hospitals.

The rescue teams traveled the region on Wednesday for the missing people on Wednesday, and the pilgrimage to the sanctuary was suspended, said Irshad.

The authorities of the Eastern Punjab Province in Pakistan called on army assistance in rescue and rescue efforts on Wednesday after torrential rains caused the major rivers, flooded villages and moved more than 200,000 people, according to Lieutenant-Général Inam Haider, president of the National Disaster Management Authority.

The army spokesman, lieutenant-general Ahmed Sharif, said that two soldiers had been killed when they helped the flood victims. He gave no other details.

The floods also overwhelmed the sanctuary of Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh religion, located near the Indian border in the District of Narowal.

The rescuers evacuated more than 20,000 people during the night of the periphery of Lahore, the second largest city in Pakistan, which risked flooding. The evacuated lives along the bed of the Ravi river, said Irfan Ali Kathia, managing director of Punjab Disaster Management Authority.

Mass evacuations began earlier this week in six Punjab districts after more heavy monsoon rains than normal and the release of water from the overflowing dams in neighboring India has triggered sudden floods in low border regions, Kathia said.

Kathia warned flood waters in the Ravi, Chenab and Sutlej rivers dangerously increased and many villages have been flooded in the districts of Kasur, Okara, Bahawalnagar, Bahawalpur, Vehari and Sialkot.

India has alerted Pakistan to possible cross -border floods through diplomatic channels rather than the Industry Water Commission, the permanent mechanism of the Indus Water Treaty in 1960. New Delhi suspended the work of the Commission after the murder in April of 26 Kashmir tourists under Indian control, although Pakistan insists that India can not Treaty.

Rescuers with sniff dogs continue to look for more than 150 people who disappeared this month after floods have killed more than 300 residents in three villages in Pakistan Northwestern Biner District.

The floods have killed more than 800 people in Pakistan since the end of June.

Scientists say that climate change fuels the heavier monsoon rains in South Asia, raising fears of the repetition of a meteorological disaster in 2022 which struck a third of Pakistan and killed 1,739 people.