Hundreds of bodies are still being retrieved from the rubble of Typhoon Haiyan, every day, the vital task which undoubtedly poses a grim for the volunteers who help with it.

Its two weeks since the Typhoon hit and the bodies of thousands of victims have yet to be retrieved as some are trapped under mangled homes and cars while others have washed up onto the banks of the sea.

In some areas, they lie bloated and untouched by the side of the road, next to overturned cars and uprooted tree trunks.

On the seafront at Tacloban city, the gentle lapping of the waves is broken by the whirring of a chainsaw.

A group of men are standing on the roof of a house, which two weeks ago was pummeled by the very same water.

They tug at the corrugated iron, prising it away to enter the living room - but it is death they are looking for.

These young volunteers from the Philippines Red Cross have the gruesome job of recovering a corpse which a neighbour has said it lies inside.

"It's hard to retrieve the dead bodies because there's so much debris," says Don Erickson Orge, who has travelled from Manila to help.