PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Rescuers are looking for more than 150 people who were still missing on Monday in northwestern Pakistan, where scores died after the area was struck by a cloudburst . A senior politician blamed locals for the high death toll, saying people should have built their homes elsewhere.

Search operations have been extended to remote areas to find residents swept away by floods that hit the mountainous district of Buner in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, said emergency services spokesman Mohammad Suhail. The army has deployed engineers and heavy machinery to clear the rubble.

The death toll in Buner reached 277 on Monday after rescuers recovered three bodies, Suhail said.

Villagers have accused officials of not telling them to evacuate ahead of flooding an

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