Bangkok flooding: waters creep further into the city - in pictures

A resident walks through floodwaters near the Chao Phraya river after an embankment ruptured overnight flooding another area in central Bangkok Photograph: Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images

A resident shows a catfish caught in floodwaters near the Chao Phraya river Photograph: Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images

A woman is given an improvised life jacket before going into the water as people are evacuated from a flooded area in Bangkok Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Thai volunteers prepare places for flood-affected people at a sports centre inside the Rajamangala National Stadium in Bangkok Photograph: Narong Sangnak/EPA

A Thai woman hangs on to a street sign in chest-deep water along the flooded streets of Rangsit, Bangkok Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

Flood victims make their way through the high waters along the flooded streets of Rangsit on the outskirts of Bangkok Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

Thai monks work to retrieve flooded robes and Buddhist texts, property of the Dhammakaya temple in Khlong Luang on the outskirts of Bangkok Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images

A Thai resident wades past a Ronald McDonald figure at a flooded fast-food restaurant in Bangkok Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA

Thai soldiers walk through floodwaters passing a submerged construction site of the Skytrain transport service in Bangkok Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA

A petrol station employee talks on her mobile phone as she sits in a plastic container amid floodwaters near the Chao Phraya river Photograph: Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images

A flooded shop selling buddha statues on the streets of Rangsit Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

People use an improvised floating device as they return from collecting water in Rangsit, Pathum Thani province, on Bangkok's outskirts Photograph: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images

Thais push a floating car through deep water on a flooded street in Bangbuathong Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images