$11-Million Settlement Reached in Bus Blast
From Times Wire Reports
Victims of a bus explosion that killed 23 nursing home patients fleeing Hurricane Rita have reached an $11-million settlement with the bus owner and a travel broker.
The bus caught fire in traffic near Dallas in September after leaving Houston.
Some passengers and the driver escaped, but the flames, fed by medical oxygen tanks that exploded, trapped many inside.
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