{"id":17372,"date":"2026-05-26T10:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/17372\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:37:10","slug":"at-least-four-killed-after-train-collides-with-school-bus-in-belgium-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/17372\/","title":{"rendered":"At least four killed after train collides with school bus in Belgium &#8211; VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four \u200bpeople, including two teenagers, were killed \u200cin Belgium on Tuesday when a train crashed into a school bus on a level-crossing near the town of \u200bBuggenhout, according to Transport Minister Jean-Luc \u200bCrucke, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/belgium-train-collision-with-school-bus-has-killed-several-people-source-says-2026-05-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The victims also included the bus \u2060driver and an adult accompanying the pupils, Crucke said.<\/p>\n<p>Two other people \u200bwere also severely injured, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/several-people-killed-as-train-collides-with-school-bus-in-belgium\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accident<\/a> occurred early on Tuesday at a level-crossing near Buggenhout station, \u200babout 23 kilometres (14.29 miles) from Brussels. \u200bCrucke said security cameras showed that the crossing&#8217;s security \u200cbarriers \u2060had come down.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Bernard Quintin said on X that &#8220;it is with deep sadness that I learned of the tragic accident that \u200boccurred in \u200bBuggenhout.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spokespeople for \u2060the Belgian police did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium, \u200bwhere a dense railway network criss-crosses \u200btowns \u2060and villages, has a history of accidents at level-crossings.<br \/>Five people died in such accidents \u2060in \u200b2025, railway infrastructure operator Infrabel \u200bsays on its website, the lowest number recorded since \u200b2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/nijat-babayev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Nijat Babayev<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four \u200bpeople, including two teenagers, were killed \u200cin Belgium on Tuesday when a train crashed into a school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[2354,7,11337,11302],"class_list":["post-17372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-accident","tag-belgium","tag-buggenhout-station","tag-train-collision"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116640445072683546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17372","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=17372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}