Swiss bus crash bodies flown home as Belgium mourns
BRUSSELS/SION, Switzerland, March 16 (Reuters) -
Belgian military aircraft brought home the bodies of 22
children and six adults killed in a bus crash in Switzerland,
and the country observed a minute’s silence during a national
day of mourning on Friday.
White coffins were loaded into two Hercules transport
aircraft near the Swiss town of Sion and landed at a military
airport near Brussels from where undertakers collected them
after a short ceremony. A third plane returned with their
belongings.
Children killed in bus crash flown back to Belgium
SION, Switzerland/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian military aircraft began returning home the bodies of 22 children and six adults killed in a bus crash in Switzerland on Friday as the country prepared to observe a minute’s silence to remember the victims.
White coffins were loaded into Hercules transport aircraft near the Swiss town of Sion as police continued to investigate how the coach, carrying 52 passengers, crashed into the wall of a tunnel on Tuesday night.
Two hurt in parcel bomb at Swiss nuclear lobby
OLTEN, Switzerland, March 31 (Reuters) – Two people were
injured when a parcel bomb exploded in the offices of the Swiss
nuclear lobby on Thursday, police said.
The two female employees of Swissnuclear were taken to
hospital with superficial burns and hearing damage, a police
spokesman said, adding police did not yet know who had sent the
parcel.
Swiss vote to expel convicted foreigners
ZURICH (Reuters) – A majority of Swiss voted to back the automatic expulsion of foreigners convicted of serious crimes on Sunday, in the latest sign of growing hostility to immigration in the country.
Thousands of opponents of the referendum result marched through Zurich and smashed shop windows, a Reuters witness said. In the capital Berne, there were about 500 protesters, some of whom threw snowballs and bottles at police in front of parliament, officials said.
Shooting deep under the peaks of the Swiss Alps
After over a decade of work Swiss engineers drilling the world’s longest tunnel broke through the last section of rock. With a length of 57 km (35 miles) crossing the Alps, the train tunnel should become operational at the end of 2017. The pictures coverage of the final break-through at the Faido-Sedrun section, shooting and transmitting the pictures from the intestines of the earth was a rare and difficult challenge for Zurich based Reuters photographers Arnd Wiegmann and Christian Hartmann.
Working on this major Swiss story for the past few years and covering all major steps of the construction, we decided to go underground some days before the ceremony, to produce pictures to illustrate preview stories. Our images were very well published in the week before ‘Drilling D-Day’.
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