{"id":17636,"date":"2026-05-26T17:13:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/17636\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:13:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:13:28","slug":"four-dead-five-injured-in-a-crash-between-a-train-and-a-school-bus-in-belgium-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/17636\/","title":{"rendered":"Four dead, five injured in a crash between a train and a school bus in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUGGENHOUT: Four people, including two children were killed when a train hit a school minibus in northern Belgium on Tuesday, the country&#8217;s deputy prime minister said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A tragic collision between a train and a school bus took place in Buggenhout this morning. Four people have been killed, including two children,&#8221; Maxime Prevot wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>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>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>A police spokeswoman told the media that seven children, a supervisor and a driver were aboard the minibus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The impact was extremely violent,&#8221; spokesman Frederic Sacre said, describing the toll as &#8220;dramatic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It 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,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Belgian interior minister Bernard Quintin wrote on X that &#8220;my thoughts go out to the victims and their loved ones&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish the injured much strength,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUGGENHOUT: Four people, including two children were killed when a train hit a school minibus in northern Belgium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,11301,11347],"class_list":["post-17636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-school-bus","tag-train-hits-school-bus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116642002206274018","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636","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=17636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}