Gunmen killed 18 passengers travelling on a bus in north-western Pakistan today, police said.

Heavy rains triggered landslides that struck two villages in Pakistan's mountainous northwest today, leaving 23 people dead and 16 others injured, police said.

At least 25 people were killed after they were buried in an avalanche while digging for gemstones in a remote area of north-western Pakistan, a regional police chief said today.

Troops in helicopters brought badly needed relief supplies to flood-swamped villages in southwestern Pakistan, as the nationwide death toll from a week of heavy rain and snow climbed past 360.