Philippines: Army joins quake rescue efforts

Rescuers scrambled to find survivors in quake-hit central Philippines on Tuesday but a series of powerful aftershocks hampered their efforts as President Ninoy Aquino appealed for calm, a day after a 6.8 temblor shook the country killing over 40 people. As many as 1005 aftershocks were recorded by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology till afternoon on Tuesday as rescue workers struggled to find dozens of missing people in the densely-populated region that was shaken yesterday.