A gunman armed with an old-model military rifle shot and killed three women and injured two men in a Swiss village, and was then arrested by officers who shot and injured him.

Relatives of the 28 people killed when a bus from Belgium crashed inside a Swiss tunnel faced the heartbreaking task of identifying the bodies ahead of their repatriation. Most of the dead were children.

Twenty-eight people, 22 of them children, were killed when a bus taking Belgian pupils back from a skiing holiday crashed in a Swiss tunnel, police said today.

A Swiss tourist bus plunged into an Alpine ravine near the Great St Bernard Pass yesterday, killing 12 people and injuring 15, four of them seriously, police said.

At least six people were killed when a Swiss tourist bus carrying 27 people plunged into an Alpine ravine near the Great St Bernard Pass today.