A bus carrying tourists collided with a tree in the Belgian capital at the weekend. Several people were injured in the accident. "3 people were seriously hurt," the Brussels fire service says. "A total of 22 tourists were taken to hospital."
"At around 12.30pm, a bus, carrying 33 foreign tourists, crashed into a tree on the Steenweg op Vilvoorde in Brussels," explains Walter Derieuw of the Brussels fire service. "Three people were seriously injured in the accident. A dozen others suffered minor injuries. A total of 22 people were taken to hospital for treatment, including the three who were seriously injured. No one is in a life-threatening condition."
The medical intervention plan was declared when the scale of the accident became clear. "A Red Cross tent was set up to help the injured. 3 medical emergency teams and 5 ambulances attended the scene."
Exactly how the accident could have happened is not yet clear. The police are still investigating. Meanwhile, the police took the tourists on the bus who were not injured to Brussels city centre.