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Oct 19, 2021 · In 1966, 116 children and 28 adults were killed when a coal waste tip came crashing onto a school and its surrounding homes. Fifty-five years may have passed since the Aberfan disaster but Jeff...
Oct 21, 2016 · Archival footage of one of the world’s first televised tragedies: the avalanche of coal waste that crushed a school in the Welsh village of Aberfan in 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.
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Sep 18, 2022 · A disaster at Aberfan, a small Welsh community, almost 60 years ago forged an unusual link between the community and the queen. The atmosphere there today — quiet grief coupled with brief...
Oct 21, 2016 · Archival footage of one of the world’s first televised tragedies: the avalanche of coal waste that crushed a school in the Welsh village of Aberfan in 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.
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- The New York Times
The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the Welsh village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, and overlaid a natural spring.
Nov 15, 2019 · The True Story of the Aberfan Disaster. The 1966 Welsh mining tragedy claimed the lives of 116 children and 28 adults and features heavily in the third season of Netflix’s “The Crown”
Oct 21, 2016 · But the NCB refused to take financial responsibility so the government and the Charity Commission sanctioned £150,000 to be drawn from the disaster fund to cover the costs.
