Switzerland: Authorities investigating the deadliest highway crashes in Swiss history

Posted on March 29, 2012 • Filed under: Europe, Tourists Killed

Relatives of the 28 people killed when a bus from Belgium crashed inside a Swiss tunnel endured a heartbreaking task Thursday: identifying the bodies of their loved ones ahead of their repatriation. Most of the dead were children. Family members, some sobbing, were driven from a hotel in the southern Swiss town of Sion to the nearby morgue, where the bodies of some of the 22 schoolchildren and six adults killed in Tuesday’s crash were being kept. The fatalities included the two drivers aboard the bus. Read article

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