GM's Barra to testify in Congress June 18

General Motors chief executive Mary Barra and former US attorney Anton Valukas will travel to Capitol Hill to testify over the ignition-recall scandal.

General Motors CEO Mary Barra

General Motors CEO Mary Barra will return to Congress to testify over the ignition-recall scandal. (AAP)

General Motors chief executive Mary Barra will return to Capitol Hill next Wednesday for another congressional grilling amid the automaker's delayed ignition-recall scandal.

It will be Barra's first appearance before Congress since GM released an internal investigation report on the car recall last Thursday that began in February.

According to GM, some employees in the company had detected the ignition-switch problem more than a decade earlier.

The company knows of 54 accidents in which airbags did not deploy, possibly due to the ignition problem, and 13 deaths since 2004.


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