The rescue of thousands of flood victims in Pakistan can be a precarious business.

Authorities in Pakistan were battling yesterday to save a city in a flood-devastated southern province.

Several carriages of a passenger train fell into water after floods knocked out a bridge in China.

Farmers are working furiously to pump out flooded pastures as they prepare for more rain on top of the weekend's deluge.

As rising floodwaters threatened to wash away his home of four years all Peter Brake could do was wait, watch and hope for the best.

Bay of Plenty flood levels are dropping, but 15 people have been evacuated from their Whakatane homes.

The eastern Bay of Plenty town of Opotiki remains isolated this morning.

Central Punjab, Pakistan's fertile agricultural belt, is now besieged by unprecedented floods.

Bay of Plenty Civil Defence officials are on flood alert, urging people to be prepared for heavy rain during the weekend.

Efforts to contact a New Zealander known to be in India's remote Himalayan region of Ladakh hit by flash floods are continuing today.

Over 30 million people have been hit by Pakistan's worst ever floods, with at least 1600 lives lost.

Three-quarters of China's provinces have been hit by floods and more than 1000 people have died or been lost in the severe flooding so far this year.