In Pakistan, schoolchildren are now having to stay at home due to record floods.

Authorities on Monday ordered all schools in the southwestern Balochistan province to be closed for a week.

"We expect more rain and flooding in the coming days," said a spokesman for the provincial authority.

Balochistan is currently cut off from the rest of the country as torrents of water have inundated railroad tracks and roads and destroyed bridges.

Train traffic has also been paralyzed in the neighboring province of Sindh.

Meanwhile, the military is helping to evacuate people by boat and helicopter from their flooded villages.

Pakistan has been hit by unusually heavy rainfall since mid-June.

Around 800 people have already lost their lives as a result of the water masses, and more than 300,000 people had to be accommodated according to the national disaster agency.

Because natural disasters such as droughts, heat waves and floods are on the rise in Pakistan, Pakistan's Climate Protection Minister Sherry Rehman has already warned of an "existential crisis" in her country.