Officials said volunteers were working overnight to fix the man-made channel in Danyor when the mudslide buried part of their group.

Incessant monsoon rains cause landslides and flash floods, taking the total rain-related deaths this year to 242.

A massive mudslide early on Monday killed seven volunteers as they repaired a drainage channel damaged by flash floods in northern Pakistan, officials said, and left three others injured. Rescuers recovered the bodies after the mudslide hit the town of Danyor in Gilgit-Baltistan at dawn and transported the injured to a hospital,