The search for survivors continued Saturday in India-controlled Kashmir following deadly flash floods which killed 60 and injured around 150 people.

Rescuers scoured the remote village of Chositi in the district of Kishtwar looking for dozens of missing people.

Thursday's floods struck during an annual Hindu pilgrimage in the area.

Authorities have rescued over 300 people, while some 4,000 pilgrims have been evacuated to safety. 

Chositi, in Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, is the last village accessible to motor vehicles on the route of an annual Hindu pilgrimage to a mountainous shrine at an altitude of 3,000 meters (9,500 feet).

The devastating floods swept away the main community kitchen for pilgrims, as well as dozens of vehicles and motorbikes.

More than 200 pilgrims were in the kitchen at the time of the flood, which also damaged or washed away many of the homes clustered together in the foothills, officials said.

Local shopkeeper Govind Rathore urged the government for help, saying people had lost their livelihoods and busineses.

"All I can say to the government is that we are totally unsafe here. We can’t live here anymore,” he said.

Kishtwar district is home to multiple hydroelectric power projects, which experts have long warned pose a threat to the region’s fragile ecosystem.

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