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Mystery Still Surrounds Cause of Tragedy in Buggenhout

Summary by Vrt
Further details have emerged regarding the accident at a rail level crossing in Buggenhout (East Flanders) on Tuesday morning when a train crashed into a school minibus killing two adults and two children.

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The shock continues to be deep in the Belgian community of Buggenhout. Unconscionableness prevails above all about how the fatal collision of a school bus with a passenger train could occur. According to the evaluated video recordings, the experienced driver (49) bent into the railway crossing despite red traffic lights and closed barriers on the left. A little later, a passing train, which had already started a braking manoeuvre, crashed at aro…

·Vienna, Austria
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Two of the children injured in the train accident in Buggenhout, Belgium, have been discharged from the hospital. Three others remain for treatment for the time being, Belgian media report. Four people died on Tuesday in the collision between the train and a school bus. They were the 49-year-old driver of the bus, a 27-year-old chaperone, and two students aged 12 and 15. The five other injured are also students at the school and were taken to th…

·Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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Two of the five children injured in the collision between a train and a bus in Buggenhout were able to leave the hospital, the VRT announced on Wednesday night. The director of the school where the five students were attending had confirmed earlier in the day that the other three boys, the most seriously injured, remained hospitalized. ...

·Brussels, Belgium
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Two of the children injured in the train accident in Buggenhout, Belgium, have been discharged from the hospital, VRT reports. Three others, who sustained more serious injuries, will remain for treatment for the time being.

·Amersfoort, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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vrt broke the news in Antwerp, Belgium on Wednesday, May 27, 2026.
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