Two days before his wedding, Noor Muhammad had a long phone call with his mother, just hours before devastating floods in Pakistan killed her along with 23 family members and relatives.

"I cannot explain how happy she was," he said, standing by the rubble of his family's large 36-room house, perched on the bank of a flood channel in Qadir Nagar village.

The village in mountainous Buner district has been the worst hit by recent heavy rain, accounting for more than 200 of nearly 400 deaths in the northwest since Aug. 15. Buner is a three-and-a-half-hour drive from the capital Islamabad.

"Everything was finished," sobbed Muhammad, 25, as mourners sat at his damaged house to offer condolences, saying there was nothing left except rubble and heavy rocks, swept down from the mountains along w

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