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Published on March 14, 2012
SWITZERLAND BUS CRASH KILLS 28, INCLUDING 22 CHILDREN
- At least 28 people - including 22 children - have been killed in a bus crash in Switzerland, police say.
Another 24 children were injured in the accident in the canton of Valais, near the border with Italy.
The bus - which was returning to Belgium - crashed into the wall of a tunnel. Both its drivers were killed.
The children from the Belgian villages of Lommel and Heverlee were returning home after a skiing holiday. There were 52 people on the bus.
The bus crashed near the town of Sierre shortly after 21:00 (20:00 GMT) on Tuesday.
Two classes of schoolchildren from the Flemish-speaking part of Belgium were travelling home after spending a week skiing in Val d'Anniviers, in the Swiss Alps.
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Today in Armenian history- 1884 Birth in Batoom of Levon Takhtajian, lecturer of Yerevan State University (agricultural economy and linguistics).
- 1901 Birth of Kostandeen Hakobian, Scientist, Doctor and Professor of Agricultural Sciences, in Meerzeek. He got a State Award for the creation of a Kazakh species of white-headed cattle.
- 1914 Birth of Balasan (Vruyr Balasanyan), translator and writer, in Moscow, .
- 1918 Start of the Trebizond negotiations between the delegations of Turkey and the Transcaucasian Seym. The German-Turkish attack took place at the same time. The negotiation effort was in vain as the Mensheviks, led by Chkhenkely, agreed to cede to the territorial demands of Turkey.
- 1921 Start of the Red Army's extensive attack on Yerevan, which ended in its victory two weeks later.
- 1921 End of the London Conference. It made indefinite allusions to a national home for the Armenians in Western Armenia. The Turkish part rejected it later.
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