{"id":17326,"date":"2026-05-26T09:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/17326\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:50:16","slug":"several-dead-after-train-collides-with-school-bus-in-belgium-dubai-eye-103-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/17326\/","title":{"rendered":"Several dead after train collides with school bus in Belgium &#8211; Dubai Eye 103.8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Tuesday, 26 May 2026 13:38\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__author\">\n                        By Reuters\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/64369e0d84068.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            A collision between a train and a school bus in the Belgian town of Buggenhout on Tuesday morning killed several people, a source told Reuters.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred early on Tuesday at a level-crossing about 1 km from Buggenhout station.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Bernard Quintin said in a post on social media platform X that &#8220;it is with deep sadness that I learned of the tragic accident that occurred in Buggenhout&#8221;. He did not provide further details.<\/p>\n<p>Spokespeople for the Belgian police did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium, where a dense railway network criss-crosses towns and villages, has a history of accidents at level-crossings.\u00a0Five people died in such accidents in 2025, railway infrastructure operator Infrabel says on its website, the lowest number recorded since 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 26 May 2026 13:38 By Reuters A collision between a train and a school bus in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[2901,2902,7,269,2888,2900,2903,144,2852,1857,2374,1045],"class_list":["post-17326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-103-8","tag-2902","tag-belgium","tag-business","tag-dubai","tag-eye","tag-fm","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-sport","tag-station","tag-talk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116640260018583418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}