REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY BAYSHONAI KALAY, Pakistan (Reuters) -Aziz Ahmed, a local schoolteacher in Buner, northwestern Pakistan said the thunder accompanying recent torrential rains was so loud he thought the "end of the world had come".

Nine were killed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, while another five died in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, authorities said. Government forecasters said heavy rainfall was expected until 21 August in the north-west of the country,

The severe rain and resultant flash flood in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have left 324 people dead, with the majority of the deaths reported from Buner, media reports said.