Damages ordered over tsunami deaths of elementary school students

Damages ordered over tsunami deaths of elementary school students

Family members of Okawa Elementary School students killed in the tsunami that followed the huge earthquake in northeastern Japan in 2011 hold up signs showing the Sendai District Court's acceptance of their claim in the damages suit in front of the court in Sendai on Oct. 26, 2016. The court ordered the city of Ishinomaki and Miyagi Prefecture to pay roughly 1.4 billion yen ($13.4 million) in damages to the families of 23 elementary school students, judging the city-run school failed to evacuate the children appropriately. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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