At least 243 people died over the span of 24 hours in India and Pakistan as torrential downpours caused widespread flash flooding and landslides, according to the Associated Press. "The death toll may rise, as we are still looking for dozens of missing people," an official told the AP.

More than 3 million people were told to remain on alert for flash floods as torrential rainfall moved through.

One month after the Texas floods, some survivors are pleading for help they say still hasn’t arrived. Others are emerging from the nightmare with the support of a community rallying to clean up the devastation on their own.

Next to small bundles of belongings, Maruf waited for a car to take him and his family away from their village in northern Afghanistan, where drought-ridden land had yielded nothing for years.The water cycle has been sharply impacted,

Four people were killed and six injured in flash floods triggered by heavy rain in Kathua district, Jammu and Kashmir, with rescue operations ongoing.

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Over 340 people were killed after heavy monsoon rains triggered flash floods across northern Pakistan in the span of two days

To answer the second part of the question, judging by the records we have, floods are more common today, but the reasons for that are two-fold. On the one hand, you have the typical meteorology answer: As we're getting into a warmer climate, the raindrops are bigger, it's more humid and it's, therefore, a little easier to flood.