Hotels, Thailand and US sued over tsunami warning

US and Austrian lawyers have filed a lawsuit demanding Thailand, US forecasters and the French Accor group answer accusations they failed in a duty to warn populations hit by December’s tsunami disaster, a lawyer said yesterday.

The lawsuit was filed on Friday at a New York district court on behalf of tsunami victims by lawyers including US attorney Edward Fagan, internationally renowned for 1990s lawsuits against Swiss banks over Holocaust-era accounts.

It demanded an account of their actions on December 26.