Belgium To Fall Silent Over Bus Crash Victims

Belgium is holding a national day of mourning for the 22 children and six adults killed in a coach crash in Switzerland.
A minute of silence will be held across Belgium at 11am local time (1000GMT) to honour the victims.
Flags will be flown at half-mast and drivers of buses and trains have been asked to switch off their engines as a mark of respect.
The first school children who survived the crash have reportedly landed back at a military airstrip in Brussels in the early hours of this morning.
Eight pupils hurt in the accident landed at Melsbroek military airport near Brussels, according to a Swiss hospital official, before being whisked away by their families accompanied by a police escort.
The bodies of the victims - mainly Belgian 11- and 12-year-olds who had spent a week on Switzerland's ski slopes - will be repatriated later today from Sion in southern Switzerland aboard a C-130 military transport plane.
A spokeswoman for Belgium's interior ministry said there would be "no communication" of the landing "out of respect for the victims and in agreement with the Swiss authorities."
Forty-six children and four teachers from two Belgian schools were returning home from a skiing trip late on Tuesday when their coach slammed into a concrete wall in the motorway tunnel in Val d'Anniviers , southern Switzerland.
Twenty-two of the dead were from Belgium while the other six fatalities were from the Netherlands.
Three of the injured children remained in critical condition, a Swiss hospital spokeswoman said.
Grieving Belgians held a vigil last night as classmates and neighbours turned out to pray for the dead in the town of Lommel, where many of the victims came from.
Police said around 2,500 people joined the Catholic service.
"With this candle, I am thinking of you," a church worker said for each of the 24 names read out.
Police are still investigating new theories into what may have caused the accident.
Earlier, reports said the bus driver had tried to play a DVD shortly before the crash, suggesting a "moment of distraction" may be to blame.
But this claim has been rejected by the dead driver's employer and dismissed as speculation by Swiss police.


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