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receiving shorter sentences. A third round of appeal at the highest court, the Court of
Cassation, the court amended the remaining one sentences to a one-year suspended prison sentence on September 16, 2014, days after the sixth anniversary of the disaster. In the end, no one was jailed for the Duweika disaster, even though all evidence pointed to it being the cause of man-made interventions, as well as complacency from district officials.
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occurred after eight gigantic boulders each the size of a small house and weighing as much as 70 tons, broke off from the side of a cliff of the
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