Belgium was rocked on Tuesday morning by a huge accident on the rails. In the village of Buggenhout in the province of East Flanders, a train crashed into a school bus full of children, the incident claimed several lives and injured an unspecified number.
Several people died on Tuesday after a train crashed into a school bus in Belgium’s East Flanders. TASR informs about it according to the reports of the AFP and Reuters agencies and the VRT news station.
The accident happened around 8:15 a.m. at the railroad crossing near the village of Buggenhout. The circumstances are unclear, as the barriers were down at the time of the incident, according to initial reports. Many rescuers are on the scene.
“I learned with great dismay about the tragic accident in Buggenhout, where a train collided with a school bus. My thoughts are with the victims and their loved ones. I wish the injured a lot of strength,” Belgian Interior Minister Bernard Quintin wrote on the X social network.
