Rescuers dug through crushed homes and piles of mud today as they searched for 400 people still missing after flash floods left 132 people dead in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Rescue efforts were stepped up today as the weather improved, a day after flash floods sent rivers of mud down desert mountainsides in Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing at least 130 people and injuring 400 others, officials said.

A sudden overnight downpour and flash floods killed more than 100 people and injured around 400 in the remote and mountainous Ladakh region of Indian Kashmir, police and the army said today.

A sudden overnight downpour and flash floods killed at least 50 people and injured 160 in the remote and mountainous Ladakh region of Indian Kashmir, police and the army said today.