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Parents fly to identify victims in Swiss bus crash

By Denis Balibouse and Philip Blenkinsop 14/03/12
Distraught parents flew to Switzerland on Wednesday after a bus carrying a Belgian school party home from a ski trip crashed into the wall of a Swiss tunnel, killing 22 children and six others.Some of the parents, gathering at the primary schools in Belgium before boarding a military aircraft, did not know whether their children were dead or alive."There's no news, simply no news," said one red-eyed father.The bus was carrying 52 people, mostly children aged about 12, when it crashed in the Swiss canton of Valais at 9:15 p.m.(2015 GMT).Twenty-eight people were killed, including 22 children. Of the 24 injured, three were in a coma. Most pupils were from the towns of Lommel and Heverlee in Belgium's Dutch-speaking Flanders region... Read on
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