ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 30 (UPI) -- The death toll in three days of flooding in Pakistan topped 400 Friday as rains swelled rivers, inundated villages and triggered landslides, officials said.
The toll was expected to increase because many people were reported missing, Pakistan's English-language newspaper Dawn reported.
Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the information minister for the Khyber-Pakhtunkwa Province, put the death toll at 408 in the flooding that followed two days of record rainfall, The New York Times reported.
The death toll could rise, he warned, as many towns and villages remained inaccessible and communications in the province were hampered by damaged infrastructure.
Much of the province has been cut off from the rest of the country as floodwaters inundated or damaged the majority of roads and railroad tracks.
Part of a recently constructed dam in the province's Charsadda district collapsed, submerging a reported 5,000 homes and stranding up to 400,000 people, officials said.
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