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3/14/12

Belgian coach disaster in Swiss tunnel kills 28 including 22 children

At least 28 people - including 22 children - have been killed in a coach crash in a tunnel in Switzerland. Another 24 children were injured in the crash near Sierre, in the canton of Valais, close to the border with Italy.

The coach, carrying 52 people back to the Belgian towns of Lommel and Heverlee following a skiing trip, struck a wall in the tunnel head-on late on Tuesday.

In Brussels, the Belgian foreign ministry said most of the children were aged around 12, and the bus was one of three hired by a Christian group. The other two reached Belgium safely.

For more: BBC News - Belgian coach crash in Swiss tunnel kills 28

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