Emergency workers in Pakistan's Punjab province have used drones to find people stranded by massive floods.

Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province is experiencing its worst flood in history, according to a senior official.

Pakistani officials say an inmate was killed and more than 100 escaped from a prison in the southern city of Karachi overnight after they were temporarily moved out of their cells following mild earthquake tremors.

India and Pakistan are bracing for the first severe cyclone this year expected to hit their coastal regions later this week.

Officials say that recent heavy rains have wreaked havoc across Pakistan since mid-June, with 903 dead and about 50,000 people homeless.