SYDNEY: Survivors of a devastating 2009 bushfire in Australia won a nearly A$500mil (RM1.5bil) payout in the biggest class action settlement in the nation’s history.
The Kilmore East blaze was the largest of the “Black Saturday” February 2009 fires in southern Victoria state that left 173 dead and razed more than 2,000 homes, the nation’s worst natural disaster of modern times.
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