The Philippines started to clear roads blocked by debris on Thursday as it reckoned up the cost of this weeks powerful earthquake, with the death toll rising to at least 158. Tens of thousands of residents of Bohol island, which took the brunt of Tuesdays 7.2 magnitude quake, remained living outdoors, for fear of aftershocks bringing down damaged homes. Authorities have recorded more than 1,200 aftershocks including one of magnitude 5.5. Nearly 17,000 people have yet to return home in the town of Loboc, where the islands second oldest church, the Church of St Peter, was pulverised in the quake.
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