Suit over death of elementary school kids in tsunami

Suit over death of elementary school kids in tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Kazutaka Sato prays in front of a cenotaph at Okawa elementary school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 10, 2014. Bereaved family members, including Sato, of 23 students at the school who were killed in the March 11, 2011 tsunami filed a damages suit the same day, arguing the children died because the school failed to evacuate them to higher ground. At the school, 74 of the 108 students died or remain unaccounted for, and 10 of the 13 teachers and school officials died in the wake of the tsunami triggered by a massive earthquake.

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