The birth of a baby girl amid the devastation of Super Typhoon Haiyan has provided a rare moment of joy for survivors.
Bea Joy Sagales was born at the airport in Tacloban, the city where officials fear at least 10,000 people have perished.
Her mother Emily Ortega, 21, was in a shelter when the storm flooded the city.
She clung to a post to survive and managed to reach the relative safety of the airport, where a military doctor assisted with the birth.
Cheers broke out in the terminal when it became clear the birth - described as "near miraculous" by officials - had been a success.
Elsewhere in Tacloban, survivors have been scavenging for food and looting shops in order to stay alive, witnesses say.
Emily Ortega lies amid the debris at the airport in Tacloban "Tacloban is totally destroyed. Some people are losing their minds from hunger or from losing their families," high school teacher Andrew Pomeda, 36, said as he warned of the increasing desperation of survivors.
"People are becoming violent. They are looting business establishments, the malls, just to find food, rice and milk. I am afraid that in one week, people will be killing from hunger."
Witnesses described how survivors are forming long queues at aid stations, waiting desperately for handouts of rice and water.
Some sit and stare, covering their faces with rags to keep out the smell of the dead.
A medic places baby Bea on her mother's chest moments after the birth One woman, eight months pregnant, described through tears how her 11 family members vanished in the storm, including two daughters.
"I can't think right now. I am overwhelmed," she said.
Aid agencies have warned that many of the 480,000 people whose homes have been destroyed by the bludgeoning force of the cyclone face a desperate battle to survive.
"Everything is gone. Our house is like a skeleton and we are running out of food and water. We are looking for food everywhere," said Jenny Chu, a medical student in Leyte.
"Even the delivery vans were looted. People are walking like zombies looking for food. It's like a movie."
'Zombie-like' survivors have been left to trudge through thick mud Lieutenant Colonel Fermin Carangan, of the Philippine Air Force, said he and 41 officers were sheltering in their airport office when "suddenly the sea water and the waves destroyed the walls and I saw my men being swept by waters one by one".
He was swept away from the building and clung to a coconut tree with a seven-year-old boy.
"In the next five hours we were in the sea buffeted by wind and strong rain. I kept on talking to the boy and giving him a pep talk because the boy was telling me he was tired and he wanted to sleep."
He finally saw land and swam with the boy to a beach strewn with dead bodies.
He said: "I think the boy saved my life because I found strength so that he can survive."
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