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1,100 Misplaced in China as Asian flood misery rises. ZHOUQU, China – Rescuers lift muddy body into trucks, plus aid convoys choked the road interested in the remote Chinese municipality where hundreds died as well as more than 1,100 were missing Monday as of landslides caused through heavy rain that has flooded swaths of Asia plus spread misery toward millions.

In Pakistan, the United Nations supposed the government's approximation of 13.8 million people affect by the country's worst-ever flood exceeded the shared total of three recent mega disasters — the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake with the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Rescuers in precipitous Indian-controlled Kashmir race to rescue dozens of trapped foreign trekkers also find 500 people at rest missing in flash floods that contain killed 140.

In China, the death fee jumped to 337 late Monday following Sunday's landslides within the northwestern province of Gansu — the deadliest event so far in the country's most horrible flooding within a decade. A debris-blocked swollen stream burst, swamping Whole Mountain villages in the county settle of Zhouqu and ripping homes as of their foundations.

"There be some, but very few, survivors. Most of them are dead, crushed keen on the earth," supposed survivor Guo Wentao. Associated Press Television News show the bodies of his younger brother as well as sister, wrapped in quilts, person carried away on a stretcher as weeping relatives followed.

The government supposed 1,148 were missing Monday nighttime. About 45,000 were evacuated. It is not known how many of the missing was in hazard or simply out of call as workers rushed to restore infrastructure in the area, where one-third of inhabitants are ethnic Tibetan.

More rainfall is expected in the area over the next three days, the China Meteorological Administration supposed. On Monday evening, clouds are building ominously more than the mountain where the mud in progress flowing.