Philippines struggles to help quake victims

LOON: Rescue workers were forced onto boats and helicopters to help thousands of isolated survivors of a powerful earthquake in the Philip­pines, as the death toll climbed to 158.

Road access to the worst-hit towns on the central island of Bohol remained cut, two days after the 7.1-magnitude quake destroyed buildings and triggered landslides that engulfed homes, regional civil defence chief Minda Morante said.