Grandmother, 70, saved from Pakistan floods by 'swimming cow'

A 70-year-old grandmother was saved from flash floods in Pakistan by her "swimming cow", which carried her for hours through surging waters before before leading her to safety.

Zainab Bibi was one of more than 10 million left homeless by the floods, but spared the fate of more than 1,600 believed to have died in the disaster which has devastated vaste swathes of Khyber, Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh provinces.

Mrs Bibi was swept away from her 14 children and 16 grandchildren as she slept in the farm yard of their home in Kot Addu, near Muzzafargarh in Southern Punjab. More...

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