Spanish woman raised by wrong family seeks damages for baby swap mistake

Now 19 years old, the woman was accidentally switched with another baby in a hospital in La Rioja

A woman is seeking 3m (2.5m) in damages from a regional health department in northern Spain after it emerged that she and another baby were accidentally handed to the wrong families hours after they were born almost two decades ago.

The maternity ward mix-up, which health authorities in the La Rioja region have attributed to human error", came to light by chance after a DNA test.