Court orders operators to pay damages over tunnel collapse deaths

Court orders operators to pay damages over tunnel collapse deaths

Yoshihito Miyaike, president of Central Nippon Expressway Co., bows in apology at a press conference in Nagoya on Dec. 22, 2015. The Yokohama District Court ordered the expressway operator earlier in the day to pay around 440 million yen ($3.62 million) in damages to the families of five of nine persons killed when the concrete ceiling in a tunnel on an expressway collapsed in December 2012. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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