PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Rescuers are looking for more than 150 people who were still missing on Monday in northwestern Pakistan, where scores died after the area was struck by a cloudburst. A senior politician blamed locals for the high death toll, saying people should have built their homes elsewhere.

Anguished Pakistanis were searching remote areas for bodies swept away by weekend flash floods as the death toll reached 277.One official replied to the lack of evacuation warnings by saying people should have built their homes elsewhere.