Bus crash kills 28 on Swiss ski holiday
March 14, 2012
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other vehicles were involved in the crash, which occurred in a stretch of tunnel where the speed limit was 62 miles per hour.
"We will examine everything to find out what happened," said Valais prosecutor Olivier Elsig.
The highway was closed in both directions to aid in the rescue. Some eight helicopters and a dozen ambulances took victims to hospitals. Dozens of firefighters and police, 15 doctors and three psychologists were called to the scene.
"There is this terrible fear and uncertainty," Andre Joseph Leonard, the archbishop of Belgium, who was in Heverlee by coincidence, told the AP. "There are
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