Airport reopens after tsunami

An airport in the Solomon Islands reopened for regular flights, easing aid delivery to the largest population center hammered by a magnitude 8.1 quake and killer waves Monday.

Four International Red Cross boats laden with medical and shelter supplies were heading out of Gizo today toward outlying villages.

Scattered cases of dysentery were reported. Officials still fear malaria and cholera could break out in hillside camps where conditions remained unsanitary.

At Titiana, six miles from Gizo and unreachable by vehicle because sections of the road were washed out, residents buried two young boys found in the rubble of houses, using a salvaged trunk for one coffin and scraps of debris for the other. Their parents remained missing.