I´m not used 2 post this kind of news but this morning my country is shocked by this sad news and it´s all over the media!

Among the victims 22 children (11-12 years old) died in the accident. They were on the way home

from a ski vacation in Switzerland.

If U have kids, or even if U don´t,you´ll understand I´m really touched and my thoughts go out 2 the family´s!

[Edited 3/14/12 2:10am]

It's the main news here in the media in Austria too, what a tragedy !

OH MAN...normally i dont like these posts

but my god what a bloody horrible awful tradegy.As a parent i give my lad an extra big hug when i read shit like this.

awful

so bloody unfair.

I feel bad everytime I hear about stuff like this.... My heart goes out to the parents who lost their children...

Is this the one?

SIERRE / GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Police in Valais are trying to piece together the cause of the Tuesday night 13 March accident they are describing as “of an extreme violence”.

Twenty-eight people, 24 of whom were children about age 12, lost their lives in the crash at 21:15 Tuesday night.

Valais police chief Christian Varone immediately informed Belgium’s ambassador to Switzerland, Jan Luykx, who went directly to the scene of the crash to help police contact the families as quickly as possible.

In a Wednesday morning bulletin police provide slightly more detail but the cause of the crash and the high number of deaths and injuries remains baffling for now: the bus veered to the right in the tunnel and into the wall at the end of an emergency pullover area.

The impact was so violent that the front of the bus trapped a number of passengers, who had to be cut out by firefighters. Rescuers have made reference to the high speed at which the bus must have been travelling for the crash to have such an impact, but it is not yet clear if the bus, one of three in a group carrying the Belgian students and adults, was traveling within the speed limit, which is 100kph inside the tunnel.

The accident, which sent 24 people, mainly children, to six hospitals, including the Chuv university hospitals in Lausanne and the cantonal hospital in Bern, called on a large number of emergency services: 30 police officers, 60 firefighters from Sierre and Sion, 15 doctors, 100 members of cleanup crews, 12 ambulances, 8 emergency helicopters (Air Glaciers, Air Zermatt, Rega), 3 psychologists who are providing counseling.

I woke up to this news. It's all over the media here in germany. Very sad to hear, I have no words for this....

My heart goes out to the families of those that died and to the countries that mourn them.

Very sorry.

Oh my. Very sad.

Very tragic.

PurpleJedi said:

Is this the one?

SIERRE / GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Police in Valais are trying to piece together the cause of the Tuesday night 13 March accident they are describing as “of an extreme violence”.

Twenty-eight people, 24 of whom were children about age 12, lost their lives in the crash at 21:15 Tuesday night.

Valais police chief Christian Varone immediately informed Belgium’s ambassador to Switzerland, Jan Luykx, who went directly to the scene of the crash to help police contact the families as quickly as possible.

In a Wednesday morning bulletin police provide slightly more detail but the cause of the crash and the high number of deaths and injuries remains baffling for now: the bus veered to the right in the tunnel and into the wall at the end of an emergency pullover area.

The impact was so violent that the front of the bus trapped a number of passengers, who had to be cut out by firefighters. Rescuers have made reference to the high speed at which the bus must have been travelling for the crash to have such an impact, but it is not yet clear if the bus, one of three in a group carrying the Belgian students and adults, was traveling within the speed limit, which is 100kph inside the tunnel.

The accident, which sent 24 people, mainly children, to six hospitals, including the Chuv university hospitals in Lausanne and the cantonal hospital in Bern, called on a large number of emergency services: 30 police officers, 60 firefighters from Sierre and Sion, 15 doctors, 100 members of cleanup crews, 12 ambulances, 8 emergency helicopters (Air Glaciers, Air Zermatt, Rega), 3 psychologists who are providing counseling.

Yes

I know tragedy happens almost everyday on our world but this is so sad because

it concerns kids, who were on their way home...parents waiting for them...U know...

A terrible tragedy which should never happen

Just awful