Severe flooding and torrential rains have left more than 250 people dead and more injured and missing as the monsoon rains ravage large areas of Pakistan, India and Southwestern China over the past week.

As of Saturday, flash floods in Pakistan have killed at least 110 people and injured at least 150 more, according to authorities. 

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India has also been coping with the death of at least 130 people in Kashmir in what is reportedly the worst flooding in six decades.

Vinod Koul, the relief and rehabilitation commissioner of the Indian-run state, said that more than 2,000 villages were affected by the severe flooding while hundreds of kilometers of roads and bridges were damaged or completely washed away over the past week.

The Indian government and army have already undertaken massive relief and rescue operations in the hardest-hit areas. Residents say, however, that the authorities have been too slow in their response. 

A local resident told Al Jazeera on Saturday that the Indian government had not taken any concrete action on draining the residential areas of flood water.

As of Saturday, 5,000 people have already been rescued, CNN reported.

Meanwhile in China, the monsoon rains have so far claimed at least 43 people in the past week, according to reports released on Sunday by the Civil Affairs Ministry. Around 18 people are still missing.  

Authorities estimate the damage to be around 3.3 billion yen or about US$ 530 million.

In Pakistan, the hardest hit were the major cities of Punjab where some 650 homes were destroyed by the incessant rains according to official tally released by the office of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

On Friday, authorities reported that at least a foot of rain has fallen within the day in the eastern parts of Pakistan.

The entire city of Lahore, Pakistan's largest city, was underwater and life in the rest of the rain-hit towns paralyzed, Al Jazeera reported.

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