Settlement reached in fatal landslide

Published 10:08 am Friday, March 7, 2014

ST. PAUL — The city of St. Paul has agreed to pay $1 million to the families of two children who were killed and one who was injured in a landslide during a school field trip last May, according to documents released Thursday.

The City Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday to approve the settlement agreement, which was posted on the council’s website as part of the meeting agenda.

The families of the children who died — Haysem Sani, 9, and Mohamed Fofana, 10 — would each get $400,000, while $200,000 would go to the family of Devin Meldahl, 10, who suffered skull, leg and rib fractures.

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The fourth-graders were part of a group from Peter Hobart Elementary School in St. Louis Park that went fossil hunting at Lilydale Regional Park.