TURBAT, Pakistan: Pakistani troops and rescuers struggled Saturday to help 1.3 million victims of monsoon-triggered floods in the country's southwest, officials said, a day after villagers rioted over the slow aid response.

The death toll from the floods in worst-affected Baluchistan province rose to 17, an official said, with local media reporting that more than 200 people have died across the country after four days of rains and flooding.

At least four people were injured Friday when police fired tear gas and bullets into the air to disperse villagers who ransacked the mayor's office in the flooded southwestern city of Turbat, driven by anger over a lack of relief aid.

Floods triggered by rains from Cyclone Yemyin on Tuesday began wreaking havoc in Baluchistan province, which includes the coastal town of Turbat, about 650 kilometers (400 miles) southeast of Quetta.

Khudah Bakhsh, the relief commissioner for Baluchistan, said Saturday the situation was now under control in Turbat and officials were trying their best to get food to victims.

"Pakistan's army is using transport planes and helicopters to ferry aid" to the flood-hit areas in Baluchistan, he said, adding the storm and floods had killed 17 people, affected 1.3 million, and left an unspecified number missing in the province.

The floods also killed more than two dozen people in a northwestern tribal region in Pakistan and four people in neighboring Afghanistan. Monsoon storms have claimed more than 120 lives in neighboring India.

Helicopters dropped food into Baluchistan as homeless people continued to arrive in Turbat from nearby flood-hit areas in a bid to get relief aid.

"We urgently need food to survive, but it will take weeks for the government to deliver aid to people by helicopters," Ijaz Karim, 35, a resident of nearby Nasirabad village told The Associated Press as troops distributed goods.

He accused the government of being slow to react to the disaster, and urged the government to repair roads so aid could be delivered.

Dorrain Bibi, who lost her 25-year-old son in the floods, said she didn't need any aid. "I only want my son back," she said, crying.

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Associated Press Writer Sattar Khan contributed to this report from Quetta.