Kin seek damages over deaths of kids in tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Relatives hold portraits of dead children as they enter the Sendai District Court in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 10, 2014. The relatives of 23 elementary school students who were killed in the March 2011 tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, filed a damages suit, arguing the children died because the school failed to evacuate them to higher ground.

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