{"id":17028,"date":"2012-03-15T11:32:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T09:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=17028"},"modified":"2012-03-15T11:32:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T09:32:38","slug":"switzerland-bus-crash-shocks-the-world-kills-28-mostly-children-17028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/switzerland-bus-crash-shocks-the-world-kills-28-mostly-children-17028\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland bus crash shocks the World, kills 28, mostly children"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17029\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17029\" title=\"Switzerland bus crash into tunnel wall is a sad tragedy  \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/switzerland-bus-crash-tunnel-nationalturk-0599.jpg\" alt=\"Switzerland bus crash into tunnel wall is a sad tragedy  \" width=\"610\" height=\"340\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Switzerland bus crash into tunnel wall is a sad tragedy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>A tour bus carrying schoolchildren back home from a class trip in Swiss slammed head-on into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps. 22 Belgian pupils and six adults perished in the tragic bus crash.<\/h1>\n<p>Berne \/ NationalTurk &#8211; Switzerlands Federal Assembly held a minute of silence in honor of the victims of a bus accident in the south region of the country that killed 28 people, including 22 children. Also 24 people were seriously injured, including three children who went into a coma. Belgian authorities flew anxious parents and relatives to the site and called for a day of mourning in the country.<\/p>\n<p>President of the Swiss Parliament Hansjorg Walter expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and feels moved by the tragic event.<\/p>\n<h2>Switzerland bus crash into tunnel wall is a sad tragedy<\/h2>\n<p>The accident occurred on early Wednesday when a bus crashed into the wall of a tunnel in the Valais region of Switzerland inside the 1.5-mile Tunnel de Geronde on a highway near the southern town of Sierre, a gateway to the Val d&#8217;Anniviers tourist region.<\/p>\n<p>The bus was carrying 52 people, most of them school children aged about 12 from Lommel and Heverlee in Flanders. It was heading back to Belgium from a skiing vacation camp in Val d&#8217;Anniviers, a ski resort in Switzerland at about 1,600 metres above sea level in the Valais Alps that borders France. It was also transporting 10 students from the Netherlands, a Pole and a German.<\/p>\n<p>The families of the victims traveled on Wednesday to Geneva to recognize the corpses, according to Belgium&#8217;s Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n<h3>Bus crash in Switzerland, 3 nations mourn the loss of young lives<\/h3>\n<p>Investigators were still trying to determine how a modern bus, a rested driver and a seemingly safe tunnel could produce one of the deadliest highway crashes in Swiss history. Police stated 21 of those killed were Belgian and seven were Dutch. Twenty-four other children were hurt.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tour bus carrying schoolchildren back home from a class trip in Swiss slammed head-on into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps. 22 Belgian pupils and six adults perished in the tragic bus crash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,6,118,895,14],"tags":[21800,21801,8622,21804,21805,21798,21803,21802,21799,21797,21806],"class_list":["post-17028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-family","category-hot","category-life","category-world","tag-belgium-bus-crash","tag-belgium-schoolbus","tag-bus-crash","tag-bus-crash-children","tag-bus-crash-kills","tag-bus-crash-switzerland","tag-bus-switzerland","tag-swiss-tunnel-crash","tag-switzerland-bus","tag-switzerland-bus-crash","tag-switzerland-tunnel-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}