Switzerland: 28 people killed when bus carrying Belgian children home crashed into the wall of a tunnel

Posted on March 21, 2012 • Filed under: Europe, Tourists Killed

SIERRE, Switzerland (Reuters) – A bus carrying Belgian children home from a school ski trip crashed into the wall of a tunnel in the Valais region of Switzerland, killing 28 people, 22 of them children, police said on Wednesday. The bus, transporting 52 people, mostly school children aged about 12 from Lommel and Heverlee in Flanders, crashed late on Tuesday evening in the canton of Valais, which borders Italy, police told an early-morning news conference. Read article

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