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Laurence Lee

Tuam babies: Survivors threaten to sue Irish government

Tuam babies: Survivors threaten to sue Irish government

Survivors of a notorious children's home in Ireland are threatening to take the government to court.

They are outraged over its failure to exhume the bodies of hundreds of children, some barely a day-old, who died in the care of the Catholic Church in the small town of Tuam.

It comes five years after the existence of a burial pit was revealed.

As many as 796 bodies are buried in chambers under the small town of Tuam.

Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee reports from Tuam.

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