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16/03/2012
British Boy Among Victims Of Swiss Bus Crash
It has been revealed a British schoolboy was among the 28 people, 22 of them children, killed when a coach crashed into the wall of a tunnel in Switzerland.
The coach was returning from a school skiing trip.
Sebastian Bowles, 11, was a pupil at St Lambertus School in Heverlee, Belgium.
His parents, Edward and Ann, identified his body in Switzerland on Thursday night.
A school spokesman has appealed for the parents to be left to grieve in peace.
A national day of mourning is to be held in Belgium to remember the victims of Tuesday’s crash, with a minutes silence and flags flown at half mast.
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The coach was returning from a school skiing trip.
Sebastian Bowles, 11, was a pupil at St Lambertus School in Heverlee, Belgium.
His parents, Edward and Ann, identified his body in Switzerland on Thursday night.
A school spokesman has appealed for the parents to be left to grieve in peace.
A national day of mourning is to be held in Belgium to remember the victims of Tuesday’s crash, with a minutes silence and flags flown at half mast.
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