Across the wider province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, at least 314 people have been killed and 156 injured due to rains and flash floods that began between Thursday and Friday night. Buner district, where Bishnoi is located, is the worst-affected, with 217 fatalities, according to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA).

Pakistani authorities are defending their response to flash floods that killed more than 200 people in a single northwestern district this week.

Rescuers were racing against time to find survivors after flash floods killed at least 337 people in Pakistan 's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The northwestern province was struck by cloudbursts and torrential monsoon downpours on Friday, triggering flash floods and landslides in the mountainous Buner district.