SRINAGAR, India/ISLAMABAD: More than 200 people in Pakistan and northern India have been killed in torrential monsoon rains which triggered flooding, landslides and house collapses, officials in the two countries said Saturday.

According to the officials rains have killed 110 people in Pakistan and 108 in India, as forecasters warned of more rain

In India, authorities put the death toll at 108, including some 30 people killed when a bus filled with those attending wedding washed away in a flooded stream, officials said.

Troops and other emergency personnel were deployed in both countries to help with relief operations, with boats and helicopters being used to reach stranded people.

Pakistan authorities have put four districts on red alert for floods that over the past three days have also damaged thousands of houses.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif chaired a high-level review meeting Saturday and ordered acceleration of relief and rescue efforts in the country, his office said.

The annual monsoon season has struck hard across the region, leaving people to wade through rushing water in towns and villages across Pakistan and in Indian-controlled areas of Kashmir, where authorities say they are seeing some of the worst flooding in decades.

In worst-hit Punjab province, the death toll from rains and flooding over the past three days hit 55 while 235 people were injured, rescue services director general Rizwan Naseer, told AFP.

Another 48 people have died in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, said Akram Sohail, chairman of the disaster management agency in capital Muzaffarabad. Three soldiers also were killed in a mudslide Thursday near the de-facto border with India, known as the Line of Control dividing disputed Pakistani- and Indian-administered Kashmir.

Pakistan has been swept by deadly monsoon floods for the last four years -- in 2013, 178 people were killed and around 1.5 million affected by flooding around the country.

Rescue workers struggled to reach remote mountain villages in Pakistan’s scenic Neelum valley along the Line of Control but landslides hampered efforts.

“The landslides caused by rains have damaged 4,000 houses in Kashmir, more than half have been destroyed,” Sohail said.

Hardest hit on the Indian side was Indian Kashmir where the heaviest rains and flooding in at least half a century have claimed at least 86 lives since last Tuesday.

Many key roads and the lone highway linking the Kashmir region to the Indian plains were closed, communication lines and railway services disrupted, while several bridges were washed away.

Some 27 bodies were pulled from a river in the mountainous Rajouri region of south Kashmir, a senior state official said. The victims were among over 60 people aboard a bus swept into a gorge last Thursday by fast-flowing flood waters. Another 36 people on the bus remain missing.

“Apart from the bus victims, 48 people have died in flooding incidents in the Jammu region (in the south of Indian Kashmir),” said Jammu divisional commissioner Shantmanu, who uses only one name.

Another 11 people were killed in the Kashmir valley as rescuers struggled to move thousands of people stranded by floods to higher ground, officials said. The usually slow-flowing river Jhelum, which meanders through Srinagar, is running far above the danger levels, swollen by pounding rains.

In India’s Punjab state, at least 21 people died as a result of house cave-ins and landslides.

Most deaths were reported from villages near Amritsar, home to the Golden Temple Sikh shrine. But “a red alert” has been issued in four districts, Jhelum, Sialkot, Nankana Sahib and Narowal, where the situation was still precarious, he said.

State-run Pakistan television showed inundated villages, submerged roads and damaged homes across Pakistan and in its portion of Kashmir.

In a statement, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the deaths and destruction caused by the rains and floods were a great loss, noting that some 650 homes have been destroyed already.