Buried alive by the National Coal Board
Sixty years ago, a coal tip in South Wales collapsed, slid down the side of a mountain above the village of Aberfan and slammed into… Read More »Buried alive by the National Coal Board
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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.