Belgian military aircraft brought home the bodies of 22 children and six adults killed in a bus crash in Switzerland.
The country observed a minute's silence during a national day of mourning.
White coffins were loaded into two Hercules transport aircraft near the Swiss town of Sion and landed at a military airport near Brussels from where undertakers collected them after a short ceremony.
A third plane returned with their belongings.
In factories, offices and schools, Belgians stood silent. Buses, trams and some trains also stopped for passengers to pay their respects to the victims, most of them 11- and 12-year-olds returning from a school skiing trip.
Swiss police continued to investigate how the coach, carrying 52 passengers, crashed into a tunnel wall on Tuesday night.
Christian Varone, chief of police in the southern Swiss canton of Valais where the accident happened, said there were many possible explanations and police would take into account statements from the survivors.
The little church of St Joseph's in Lommel was swamped yesterday by 2,500 people who came to remember the 15 children and two school staff from the small town who had died.
The town plans a memorial ceremony next Wednesday, to be attended by members of the Belgian and Dutch royal families.
Flags were flown at half-mast on public buildings across Belgium, the Netherlands and the Swiss canton of Valais where the accident happened.
Six Dutch children were killed in the crash and four more were injured - Lommel is right by the Dutch border.
Official British sources said one of the dead was an 11-year-old with joint Belgian-British nationality.
Of the survivors, six children with only light injuries returned to Belgium yesterday. Six specialised medical planes were due to bring a further 14 more seriously injured children back today and four more will stay in Swiss hospitals, three of them still in a critical condition.
