A British boy was among the 28 people killed in a horrific bus crash in a Swiss tunnel, it emerged today.

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.

A tourist bus that slammed into a concrete wall in a Swiss Alps tunnel, killing 28 people, was not speeding, Swiss police have said.

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.