Swiss coach crash: British boy among the victims

AN 11-year-old British boy was among the 28 people killed in a horrific bus crash in Switzerland earlier this week, it emerged today.

Sebastian Bowles was one of the 22 children who died in Tuesday’s crash, a spokesman for St Lambertus School in Heverlee, Belgium, confirmed.

The tourist bus carrying 52 people hit a wall returning from a ski holiday in the Swiss Alps.

School representative Dirk De Gendt said Sebastian’s British father Edward and Belgian mother Ann landed in Brussels last night after identifying their son’s body in Switzerland.

Mr De Gendt said: “They landed in Brussels at 10.45pm. The mother had gone to Switzerland with a group of parents and the father had flown directly from London to Switzerland.”

He appealed for the parents to be left to grieve in private.

Sebastian’s father is reported to have moved his family from London two years ago to be near his wife’s relatives.