Too few supplies as tsunami death toll climbs to 34

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.

Reports of diarrhoea were becoming more widespread, and officials worried about possible malaria and cholera outbreaks because of unsanitary conditions in the more than one-dozen makeshift high-ground camps.

Government officials conceded the aid effort was going more slowly than they wanted, but blamed the remoteness of the region and a shortage of relief supplies in the capital, Honiara.