Thousands of people streamed back to the historic southern city of Thatta today where new levees hastily built from clay and stone held back floodwaters that have inundated much of Pakistan.

Floodwaters made another break today in the levees protecting a southern Pakistani city, as thousands of residents fled for high ground and left the city nearly empty.

The death of a Muslim police officer has brought the death toll in a south Pakistan church to 16.