A TORRENT of water threatening to deluge a city in flood-hit Pakistan has begun to recede, officials said yesterday, as emergency workers plugged a breach in defences against the swollen Indus river.

PAKISTAN battled yesterday to save areas threatened by more devastating flood waters as the United Nations warned that 800,000 people in desperate need of aid had been cut off by the deluge.

Two trains, one carrying oil, collided in southern Pakistan on today, sparking a fire. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

At least 15 people have been killed and more than 200 injured when a passenger train derailed in a southern province of Pakistan.