Court rules Portugal's rail network company to compensate for kid's death on rails

Portugal Central Administrative Court of the North has ruled a compensation of about 75,000 euros by rail network company Refer and an insurer to the parents of a child who was run over by a train in 2006.

The court said Refer and the child's grandmother were both responsible for the death of the child, Portuguese Lusa News Agency reported on Monday.

The accident took place in September 2006 in Gaia, northern Portugal, when the five-year-old child left the home with a four-year-old friend without his grandmother noticing.

The children managed to climb over a partially crumbled wall and played on the railway, where one of the kids was killed.

The compensation ruling was made following an appeal by the parents against an acquittal given by another court. Endit