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At least 28 people - including 22 children - have been killed in a coach crash in a tunnel in Switzerland. Another 24 children were injured in the crash near Sierre, in the canton of Valais, close to the border with Italy. The coach, carrying 52 people back to the Belgian towns of Lommel and Heverlee following a skiing trip, struck a wall in the tunnel head-on late on Tuesday. Alpine tunnel disasters 13 March 2012: Bus carrying schoolchildren back from skiing holiday crashes into wall near Sierre, Switzerland, killing 22 children and six adults 24 October 2001: Two lorries collide in Switzerland's Gotthard tunnel, starting a fire, with 11 people killed mainly by smoke and gas inhalation 24 March 1999: A Belgian lorry catches fire in the Mont Blanc tunnel between France and Italy, leaving 39 people dead