Doctor comments on status of bus crash survivors, floral tribute outside morgue

(15 Mar 2012) 1. Wide of morgue entrance
2. Mid of two people laying flowers at entrance
3. Mid of flowers
4. People leaving
5. Various exteriors of Sion hospital
6. Various of media
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Michael Callens, Belgian doctor:
"Of course the fact they are in Lausanne as I told you for those children they are of course in a very serious situation and there is no actually no possibility for repatriation and we have to follow the situation there hour by hour."
8. Cutaway
9. SOUNDBITE: (French) Dr Michael Callens, Belgian doctor:
"The children who are in hospital here right now in Sion are doing well, even in the sense that thirteen or fourteen children should be repatriated soon, not today, but soon. We don't know if it's going to be tomorrow or the day after. Naturally we are probably going to use two hospital planes because they are nonetheless injured in such a way that they can't be transported in a way in which they are sitting down."
10. Various exteriors of hospital
STORYLINE
Mourners laid flowers on Thursday outside a morgue in the Swiss town of Sion, where victims of Tuesday's horrific bus crash were taken.
Swiss police say 21 Belgians and seven Dutch were killed when the bus carrying 52 people hit a wall inside the Tunnel de Geronde, less than an hour after heading home from a ski holiday in the Swiss Alps.
Families of some of those killed were being taken to identify the bodies ahead of their repatriation, police said on Thursday.
At the hospital in Sion, doctor Michael Callens said that injured children at that facility were doing well and could be sent home in the coming days.
But he added that the injured who were taken to a Lausanne hospital were "in a very serious situation" and could not be moved.
"We have to follow the situation there hour by hour," he told reporters outside the hospital.
28 people were killed when a bus from Belgium crashed inside the Swiss tunnel on Tuesday.
Twenty-four other children were hurt, some seriously.

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