RELATIVES of 155 skiers and snowboarders killed in an Austrian cable car fire in November 2000 will press on with civil lawsuits seeking damages despite a setback in a US court, a lawyer representing the families said.

A £4bn (€5.83bn) lawsuit has been filed against the mining and diamond giants Anglo American and De Beers by former workers in South Africa who say the companies treated them like slaves under the former racist apartheid regime.

South African apartheid victims have launched multi billion pound actions against international banks which dealt with the racist regime.