Flash floods triggered by pre-monsoon rains swept away dozens of tourists in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least eight people.

Flash flooding in Pakistan’s mountainous northwest has killed 11 people, including several children, at the start of the monsoon season, disaster management officials said. “In the past 24 hours, flash floods and landslides have claimed the lives of 11 people — including four children and three women — while six others have been injured,

At least nine people from one extended family died when floodwaters swept away children in a river in northern Pakistan and their relatives jumped into the water to try to save them on Friday, officials said.