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Flying home
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/coffin2a.jpgBelgian soldiers carry coffins of victims of the Sierre bus crash at Melsbroek military airport. Photograph: Jurgen Braekevelt/Belgian Defence/Reuters
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Flying home
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/coffin1a.jpgOne of the coffins of the victims of the Sierre bus crash is carried out of a cargo plane at Melsbroek military airport, Belgium, after returning from Switzerland. Photograph: Jurgen Braekevelt/Belgian Defence/Reuters
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A minute's silence
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/silence1a.jpgPeople hold a minute's silence at Brussels Central train station during a national day of mourning. The minute was observed around the country at 11am in memory of the 22 children and six adults killed in a bus crash in Switzerland. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters
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A minute's silence
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/silence2a.jpgPeople hold a minute of silence at Brussels Central train station. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters
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A minute's silence
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/silence3a.jpgPolice officers salute as neighbours and relatives of victims of the bus crash in Switzerland observe a minute of silence in front of 't Stekske school in Lommel, Belgium. Photograph: Sebastien Pirlet/Reuters
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Flying home
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/mourn2a.jpgPolice officials at Sion airport, Switzerland, pay the last honours to victims before the take off of a Belgian army Hercules aircraft carrying bodies from the Sierre bus crash back to Belgium. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters
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Flying home
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/mourn5a.jpgPolice officials at Sion airport, Switzerland, carry coffins of those killed in the Sierre bus crash into a Belgian army Hercules aircraft. Photograph: Olivier Maire/Reuters
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Flying home
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/mourn3a.jpgPolice officials at Sion airport, Switzerland, carry coffins of those killed in the Sierre bus crash into a Belgian army Hercules aircraft. Photograph: Olivier Maire/Reuters
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Flying home
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/mourna.jpgA Belgian army aircraft takes off at Sion aiport, Switzerland. Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters
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Mourning
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/bus28a.jpgPeople sign books of condolence in the town hall of Lommel, Belgium, for victims of the bus crash in Switzerland that killed 28, including 22 children. Photograph: Mischa Rapmund/Reuters
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Mourning
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/bus29a.jpgPeople sign books of condolence in the town hall of Lommel, Belgium. Photograph: Mischa Rapmund/Reuters
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Mourning
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/bus20a.jpgA man touches teddy bears left on a bridge near to the entrance of the motorway tunnel in which 22 school children and six adults died in a bus crash. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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Mourning
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/bus22a.jpgTributes are left on a bridge near to the entrance of the motorway tunnel. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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Mourning
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/bus26a.jpgPeople attend a ceremony at Saint Peter's church in Leuven for those killed. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters
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Mourning
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/bus25a.jpgPeople attend a ceremony at Saint Peter's church in Leuven for those killed. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters
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Mourning
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/bus24a.jpgA 'white march' for victims near the site of a bus crash in Sierre, Switzerland. Photograph: Adrian Streun/Reuters
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Mourning
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/bus23a.jpgFlowers and candles are seen after a 'white march' for the bus crash victims near the site of the incident in Sierre, Switzerland. Photograph: Adrian Streun/Reuters
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Bus crash
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/bus10a.jpgRelatives, parents and teachers arrive at the Sint Lambertus school in Belgium. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters
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Bus crash
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/bus9a.jpgA woman and child look at condolence notes and drawings posted on a wall outside the Sint Lambertus school in Belgium. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters
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Bus crash
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/bus1a.jpgA helicopter takes off from the entrance of a tunnel into which a foreign coach crashed in Sierre, western Switzerland. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters
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Bus crash
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/bus2a.jpgRescuers carry a stretcher to an emergency helicopter. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters
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Bus crash
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/bus5a.jpgEmergency services attend the crash scene. Photograph: Police Cantonale du Valais/Reuters
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Bus crash
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/bus3a.jpgThe wreckage of the coach is towed away. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters
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Bus crash
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/03/bus7a.jpgBelgian amabassador to Switzerland Jan Luykx checks his mobile phone in front of a picture of the crash after a news conference in Sierre. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters
