Seven receive jail terms over deadly quake
By Ella Ide in L'Aquila, Italy | China Daily | Updated: 2012-10-24 08:16
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A man walks on debris past destroyed buildings in downtown L'Aquila after the devastating quake on April 6, 2009. Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters |
Six Italian scientists and a former government official were sentenced to six years in jail on Monday for multiple manslaughter in a watershed ruling that found them guilty of underestimating the risks of a killer earthquake in 2009.
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