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Aberfan

‘Murdered’ by the Coal Board

People remember where they where they were when they heard the news of the Aberfan disaster on the morning of 21 October 1966. A tip high above the coal-mining village near Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, had slid down the mountain and slammed into a row of houses and a junior school, killing 116 children and 28 adults.