BELGIUM MOURNS 28 KILLED , 22 OF THEM CHILDREN

The wreckage of the bus after it crashed inside a motorway tunnel in Sierre, in the Swiss canton of Valais

Belgium is mourning the deaths of 28 people – 22 of them children – in a coach crash in Switzerland. The coach, carrying 52 people back to Belgium following a skiing trip, struck a wall in a tunnel on Tuesday.
The coach, with a cream and brown striped logo, was travelling on the A9 motorway towards Sion and crashed into the concrete wall of a tunnel near the town of Sierre on Tuesday night at 9.15pm.
The head of the Cantonal police Christian Varone described the crash as “unprecedented”. An investigation to determine the cause of the crash is underway.
Relatives of the victims have flown to Switzerland – with many unsure about the fate of their children.

Source: Agency