VILLAGERS buried their dead where they found them — including two young boys discovered yesterday in one shattered community — as frustration mounted over delayed help for survivors of the Solomon Islands’ devastating earthquake and tsunami.

Aid workers helping survivors of a tsunami disaster in the Solomon Islands complained today that the relief efforts were chaotic and lacked resources.

International aid trickled to survivors today after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of the Solomon Islands.

Survivors picked through ruined stores today in a desperate search for drinking water and food in a Solomon Islands town devastated by a tsunami, as an international relief effort made tentative first steps.

Scores of Australian troops were today flying to the Solomon Islands in the Pacific to restore peace after rioters and looters laid waste to much of the capital Honiara’s Chinatown neighbourhood in protests sparked by the election of a new prime minister.