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Belgian schoolchildren learn of bus crash that killed classmates
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A worker stands in front of the wreckage of a bus that crashed into a motorway tunnel in Sierre in western Switzerland, March 14, 2012. A bus carrying a Belgian school party home from a ski trip crashed into the wall of a tunnel in Switzerland late on Tuesday, killing 28 people, including 22 children. The bus, transporting 52 people, mostly school children aged about 12 from the towns of Lommel and Heverlee in Belgium's Dutch-speaking Flanders region, crashed in the Swiss canton of Valais, police told a news conference early on Wednesday. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (SWITZERLAND - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT)DENIS BALIBOUSE / Reuters
Relatives, parents and teachers arrive at the Sint Lambertus school in Belgium, March 14, 2012. A bus carrying Belgian tourists crashed into the wall of a tunnel in Sierre in the Valais region of Switzerland, killing 28 people, 22 of them children, police said on Wednesday. The bus, transported 52 people, mostly school children from Heverlee and Lommel in Flanders. REUTERS/Yves Herman (BELGIUM - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT)YVES HERMAN / Reuters
People react on March 14, 2012 at the Stekske primary school in Lommel following news of the March 13 bus crash in a tunnel in Sierre, in the Swiss canton of Valais, southern of Switzerland, in which 28 people, including 22 children from two schools in Lommel and Heverlee, died as they were returning to Belgium from a skiing holiday. Another 24 children were reported injured in the crash. The bus, which was carrying 52 passengers, was travelling from Val d'Anniviers toward the Swiss town of Sion on the A9 highway when the accident happened late on March 13. TOPSHOTS AFP PHOTO / BELGA / YORICK JANSENS - BELGIUM OUT - (Photo credit should read YORICK JANSENS/AFP/Getty Images)YORICK JANSENS / AFP - Getty Images
Twenty-four pupils from the Catholic school in the Leuven suburb of Heverlee were on the ski trip, a popular annual event. A teacher and a trip organizer were killed in the crash along with eight local children. In total, 22 children and 6 adults were killed.
"The eight sets of parents, they can only sit and wait, they just don't know. I'm in pain, I have tears inside," said Dirk De Gendt, a priest at St Lambertus Catholic church and a member of the school board.
"We don't have words, only deep grief. They were supposed to be back now." Read the full story.
A worker stands in front of the wreckage of a bus that crashed into a motorway tunnel in Sierre in western Switzerland, March 14, 2012. A bus carrying a Belgian school party home from a ski trip crashed into the wall of a tunnel in Switzerland late on Tuesday, killing 28 people, including 22 children. The bus, transporting 52 people, mostly school children aged about 12 from the towns of Lommel and Heverlee in Belgium's Dutch-speaking Flanders region, crashed in the Swiss canton of Valais, police told a news conference early on Wednesday. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (SWITZERLAND - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT)DENIS BALIBOUSE / Reuters
