Two small Belgian
towns are in deep trauma after a devastating bus crash in the Swiss Alps left
at least 22 schoolchildren dead.
A further six people
died in the crash, on Tuesday night in a tunnel in the south-western canton of
Valais, or Wallis. The classes of 11- and 12-year-olds were returning from a
school skiing trip to the small Flemish towns of Heverlee and Lommel, east of
Brussels.
Distraught parents gathered at the Saint Lambert school in Heverlee
anxiously awaiting news of who had died and who had survived the crash, which
is believed to be the worst road accident in Switzerlands history.Children's bus crash kills 28 in Switzerland
As
a general rule I do not discus religion or politics with strangers and I try to avoid the subjects with friends and family.
My
wife is presently extremely ill and staying in a clinic about 100 km from our
home, I drive to visit her every day. This means that I use the same road each
day at roughly the same time and I have picked up the same hitchhiker on three separate
occasions and given him a lift.
He
knows the reason for my journey and always asks after my wife. On the last
occasion he said that all we can do is pray, I nodded, he then asked if I
believe in God and when I replied no he shook his head and said that I should,
as it does no harm.
Fortunately
we arrived at the spot where I drop him off before he asked the question that
all believers ask of non-believers, why?
