Heavy monsoon rains have triggered landslides and flash floods across a remote region of northern Pakistan, killing at least 117 people in the last 24 hours, disaster authorities said Friday.

The majority of the deaths, 110, were recorded in mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA).

Seven more people were killed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, regional disaster management authorities said.

“So far, across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, more than 110 people have died due to cloudbursts, flash floods and roof collapses,” PDMA spokesperson Anwar Shehzad told AFP.

Another 60 people have been injured, he added.

He said Buner, Bajaur, Mansehra and Battagram have been declared disaster-hit districts.

In Bajaur, a tribal district abutting Afghan

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