Train hits Belgian school bus in fatal crash
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Several children and adults have been killed in a collision between a train and a school bus in Belgium. Federal police said the vehicle had been on its way to a special education school. Police have launched an investigation into the crash, with officials saying safety barriers on the level crossing had been down.
Also: Iran vows to retaliate after Monday's US strikes. Israel says it will intensify its attacks against Hezbollah, as Lebanon reports multiple casualties in overnight strikes. A human rights watchdog has found evidence that the United Arab Emirates recruited Colombian soldiers to fight alongside paramilitary forces in Sudan. In Sydney, a light show is cancelled after 89 drones fall into Darling Harbour. And experts involved in the rescue of teenagers from a cave complex in Thailand in 2018 are called to search for seven people trapped in a Laos cave. Protected birds of prey are being illegally killed in Britain, conservationists say. And Ferrari unveils its first fully electric car.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 15 hours GMT on Tuesday the 26th of May. |
| 0:17.1 | A train has hit a school minibus on a level crossing in Belgium, killing four people. |
| 0:22.5 | Iran has warned it has the right to retaliate after the U.S. launched fresh attacks. |
| 0:27.7 | And a rescue operation is underway in Laos for seven people trapped in a cave complex. |
| 0:34.2 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:35.9 | Everything these days is up in the air with regards to demand for electric vehicles. |
| 0:40.7 | Everyone's trying to find their feet and Ferrari is no different. |
| 0:44.3 | Ferrari launches its first ever electric car. |
| 0:50.8 | A serious accident at a level crossing in Belgium has killed four people, including two children. |
| 0:57.9 | A train hit a school minibus after it went through the barrier. |
| 1:01.4 | Our global affairs reporter, Paul Moss, has been following the story. |
| 1:05.5 | This happened at a small village called Buchanaut in the northwest of the country, not far from the capital, Brussels. |
| 1:11.6 | It seems there was a minibus carrying children with a driver and also a supervisor. |
| 1:17.1 | And just after 8 in the morning, as it crossed the level crossing, there was what police have |
| 1:21.4 | described as a violent impact between the minibus and a train. |
| 1:25.8 | And I say extremely violent. |
| 1:27.2 | A spokesman for the train company has said that the minibus and a train. And I say extremely violent. A spokesman for the train company |
| 1:28.7 | has said that the minibus was thrown 15 metres in the air. Now, if that's true, it really does |
| 1:35.1 | show the horrible power of the impact. We can see images on television of the bus lying on its side |
| 1:40.8 | next to the railway tracks. The latest we're hearing is that two child passengers were killed, along with the driver and the children's supervisor. There were more than 100 people on the train. Their lives, they weren't injured. I mean, obviously, this is an early time to be talking about what exactly happened, but it does feel like here there really is a complete mystery, as I think we can hear from Thomas Beck, |
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