In 1966, a slag heap collapsed and engulfed a primary school in Aberfan, killing 144 people, including 116 children. |
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The Aberfan disaster is situated on the fault line of this transformation. |
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In 1966, when 146 people, mainly children, were killed after a pit bing collapsed in the mining village of Aberfan, she waited six days before visiting the scene. |
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In the 1966 Aberfan disaster in Wales, a colliery spoil tip collapsed, engulfing a school and killing 116 children and 28 adults. |
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In 1966, the village of Aberfan in the Taff valley suffered one of the worst disasters in Welsh history. |
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In 1966, 116 children and 28 adults were killed in Aberfan when a coal spoil tip collapsed onto them. |
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The Aberfan disaster in 1966 buried a school in South Wales when a huge slag heap collapsed, killing 116 children and 28 adults. |
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I am old enough to remember the stinking smoldering slag heaps of West and South Yorkshire, they have all gone, and quite right too, flattened aftter the Aberfan disaster. |
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A TOTAL of 144 people, most of them children, died on October 21,1966 when they were buried by a coal slag heap at Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. |
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