Aid workers struggled to reach remote, tsunami-ravaged villages in the Solomon Islands on Thursday, as the death toll rose with more bodies found in wrecked homes and debris in the South Pacific island chain.
When a 7.6-magnitude quake hit the Visayas and triggered a tsunami warning in the Pacific coast a month ago, some 7,000 residents from coastal barangays here evacuated to higher ground within 12 minutes.
India and Sri Lanka lifted tsunami warnings on Wednesday after an 8.6-magnitude earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered fears of a possible repeat of the devastating 2004 Asian tsunami.
