Pakistan seeks international help for flood victims

A man carries a cot after he salvaged it from his flood-hit home in Jaffarabad, a district of Pakistan’s south-western Baluchistan province (Zahid Hussain/AP)

Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has asked for international help in battling deadly flood damage in the impoverished nation as rescuers struggled to evacuate thousands of marooned people from flood-hit areas.

Mr Sharif’s appeal on Twitter came as exceptionally heavy rain continued lashing Pakistan and the death toll reached 937 since mid-June, more than a third of them children.