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Yves Herman / Reuters
Relatives, parents and teachers arrive at the Sint Lambertus school in Belgium on March 14, 2012. A bus carrying children from the school crashed in a tunnel in Switzerland, killing 28 people.
Yorick Jansens / AFP - Getty Images
There was equal grief at the Stekske primary school in Lommel, Belgium, following news of the bus crash.
Reuters reports from Heverlee, Belgium — At morning assembly on Wednesday, the children of St Lambertus primary school in the Belgian town of Heverlee learnt of the bus crash in the Swiss mountains that killed a teacher and several of their classmates.
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.
Denis Balibouse / Reuters
A worker stands in front of the wreckage of a bus that crashed into a motorway tunnel in Sierre in western Switzerland on March 14, 2012. The bus, carrying 52 people, hit the side of a tunnel on the way back from a school ski trip and slammed into a wall, crushing the front third of the vehicle.
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god bless u all, so sad
Yes, absolutely. This is heartbreaking beyond measure.
And although the "why" in cases like this pale in comparison to dealing with the tragedy and helping those injured and bereaved, I do think it's important we determine the cause quickly.
To that end, I hope we learn more from the investigation...and more importantly, discover measures to greatly reduce the chances of this ever happening again.
American intelligence agencies in cooperation with the Israeli security services have done it. This was done in order to distract attention from the Afghan events, when the U.S. military shot 16 Afghan civilians. It's true. And not only this incident and many others were made to distract attention from the Afghan shame.