Swiss bus crash survivors begin returning home to Belgium

British boy of the Belgian school, is one of 28 dead after returning from a holiday bus crashed into a wall

Eight students who survived the bus crash in Switzerland that killed 28 people were brought home to Belgium, while relatives of the dead, including 22 children, were identified of the bodies of their relatives.

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Thursday at a hotel in southern Swiss town of Sion nearest morgue where the bodies of some of the 22 children and six adults killed in an accident Tuesday maintained. Both pilots were among the dead.

A British boy was among 28 people killed, officials said Friday. Sebastian Bowles, 11, was a student at Saint-Lambert in Heverlee, Belgium. A school representative, Dirk De Gendt, said Edward Sebastian British father and Belgian mother Ann landed in Brussels last night after identifying the body of her son in Switzerland. He called on parents to leave to mourn in private.

Christian Varone, police commander for the Swiss canton of Valais, which had led families to the crash site, said: "They showed great dignity and courage."

Some victims' family flew home from Geneva airport Thursday evening. Furthermore, a plane carrying eight children who had been released from the hospital and their families also returned to Belgium.

The tourist bus carrying 52 people crashed into a wall Tuesday night, less than an hour after leaving home after a holiday resort in the Swiss Alps. Twenty-four other children were injured, some seriously. The cause of the accident is under investigation.

The accident site was about half a mile into the tunnel of 1.5 miles. Parents left flowers in front of the wall hit the bus.

Bornet said authorities have worked to free the bodies of 28 victims as soon as possible after the identification was complete.

In Belgium Plans are underway to begin the repatriation of bodies of three military aircraft on Friday, which was declared a national day of mourning.

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• Renggli, spokesman for the hospitals in Valais, said doctors have performed 50 operations in 16 children. Eight were released, leaving 12 children still in the area of ??Sion. Three others who were more seriously injured were taken to a hospital in Lausanne and one was transferred to a hospital in Bern.

In Zion, Dr. Michael Callens said that children in the hospital who had "good" and should soon be able to be repatriated to Belgium. "We do not know if it will be tomorrow or the next day," he said.

It would take longer for the four treaties of Lausanne and Bern went home, he said.

Research is underway to determine how a modern bus with two drivers rested could crash in a tunnel is considered safe, results in a fatal car accident in the history of Switzerland.

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