{"id":17390,"date":"2026-05-26T11:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/17390\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:04:13","slug":"several-dead-after-train-hits-school-bus-in-belgium-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/17390\/","title":{"rendered":"Several dead after train hits school bus in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several people were killed when a train hit a school minibus carrying seven children in northern Belgium on Tuesday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two sources told AFP that there were several fatalities among those on the bus after the collision at a level crossing in the village of Buggenhout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Belgian media showed images of a badly damaged minibus lying on its side on a road next to a railway line, with tents set up by emergency workers around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A police spokeswoman told the media that seven children, a supervisor and a driver were aboard the minibus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked by AFP, the Belgian police refused to confirm the casualty toll from the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe impact was extremely violent,\u201d spokesman Frederic Sacre said, describing the toll as \u201cdramatic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt happened at around 8:08 am (0608 GMT) when a minibus was struck by a train that was due to stop at the next station, which was about a kilometre away,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Belgian interior minister\u00a0Bernard Quintin wrote on X that \u201cmy thoughts go out to the victims and their loved ones\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI wish the injured much strength,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several people were killed when a train hit a school minibus carrying seven children in northern Belgium on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,1608,5523],"class_list":["post-17390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-international","tag-mna"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116640551177860994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17390","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=17390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}