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Second group reaches $11.5 million Oso landslide settlement

An orange U.S. Coast Guard helicopter at upper right is dwarfed as it flies, Monday, March 31, 2014 by the face of the massive mudslide that hit the nearby community of Oso,Wash. on March 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

EVERETT, Wash. — A second group of relatives of people killed in the deadly Oso landslide has reached an $11.5 million settlement with Washington state and a timber company that logged an area above the site of the collapse.

The Daily Herald reported Sunday the agreement was reached in April. It follows a $60 million payout the state and Grandy Lake Forest Associates made to a larger group of plaintiffs in 2016.

The lawsuit alleged that the state, county and timber company knew the hillside posed a serious risk to neighbors but didn't do enough about it.

The 2014 Oso landslide wiped out a rural neighborhood and killed 43 people.

Attorney Emily Harris, who represented families of two people killed, said it was a great result that provides closure.

The April agreement does not specify how much would be paid by the state or the timber company.

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