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} }()); </script> <span class="caption"> The aftermath of the accident in the Swiss Alps <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120314182510/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/mar/14/swiss-coach-crash-children-video" title="Video will start automatically on this page">Link to this video</a> </span> </span> <p></p><p>Two small Belgian towns are in mourning after a bus crash in the Swiss Alps left at least 22 schoolchildren dead.</p><p>A further six people died in the crash, which happened in a tunnel in the south-western canton of Valais, or Wallis, on Tuesday night.</p><span class="inline embed embed-media"> <object><iframe width="460" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20120314182510if_/http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=208697059156844486418.0004bb30e3715a51a9c22&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=46.291918,7.523575&spn=0.166061,0.315857&z=11&output=embed"></iframe><br/><small>View <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120314182510/http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=208697059156844486418.0004bb30e3715a51a9c22&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=46.291918,7.523575&spn=0.166061,0.315857&z=11&source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">Switzerland coach crash, March 2012, V3</a> in a larger map</small></object> </span><p>The classes of 11 and 12-year-olds were returning from a school skiing trip to the small Flemish towns of Heverlee and Lommel, east of Brussels.</p><p>Distraught parents gathered at the Saint Lambert school, in Heverlee, anxiously awaiting news of who had died and who had survived in the crash, believed to be the worst road accident in <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120314182510/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/switzerland" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Switzerland">Switzerland</a>'s history.</p><p>The bus was said to have been driving through the tunnel at high speed when it veered into the concrete tunnel wall. No other vehicles were thought to have been involved.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The Belgian prime minister, Elio Di Rupo, has declared a day of mourning. Before heading off to Switzerland, he described the tragedy as a "black day" for <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120314182510/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/belgium" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Belgium">Belgium</a>.</p><p>"All Belgians share our immense sadness," he said. "There are no words to describe how we feel. In view of the scale of the catastrophe and the emotions it triggers, the government has decided there should be a day of national mourning."</p><p>Of the 24 survivors of the crash, most of whom are seriously injured, three are comatose, according to Le Soir newspaper. The victims included 10 Dutch citizens, a Pole and a German, most of whom attended the same Flemish schools.</p><p>While parents of the children flew to Geneva en route to the mortuaries and hospitals, several Belgian and Flemish cabinet ministers also travelled to Switzerland, along with teams of psychologists and police victim identification experts.</p><p>Two military aircraft were made available to ferry the parents of the victims to Switzerland.</p><p>Didier Reynders, the foreign minister, said the bus was alone in the tunnel at the time of the accident, adding: "We have no indication of what caused the crash."</p><p>There were 52 people on board, the vast majority of them schoolchildren. Of the 28 who were killed, 22 were pupils. The other six victims included the two bus drivers.</p><p>The remaining 24 were all injured, some very seriously. Many were taken by helicopter to Swiss hospitals.</p><p>As the parents of the schoolchildren congregated at the two Belgian schools, it remained unclear who had lost sons or daughters. "The information at the moment is very scarce," a police spokesman in Heverlee, just outside the university town of Leuven, said.</p><p>There were 24 children from the Heverlee school on the bus and 22 from a Lommel primary school. "Unbelievable," said the mayor of Lommel, Peter Vanvelthoven. 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