WASHINGTON, D.C.: General Motors chief executive Mary Barra was told in 2011 of steering problems on cars involved in this year’s recall and linked to 13 deaths, a document released last week showed.

US lawmakers published an internal e-mail, dated October 3, 2011, from a GM engineer to Barra, who at the time was head of product development at the largest US carmaker.

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