Bus crash not due to speeding, say police

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

The bus was carrying students aged about 12 from two different Belgian schools when it crashed shortly after 9pm on Tuesday on a motorway near the southern town of Sierre.

The crash in the short Tunnel de Geronde left the front of the bus mangled, trapping people inside. Twenty-two schoolchildren and six adults, including the driver, were killed and another 24 children were admitted to hospital in what the police chief described as a “scene like a war”.