• Episode 028 - The Aberfan Disaster

  • Jan 4 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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Episode 028 - The Aberfan Disaster

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  • The Aberfan Disaster

     

    9:13am on October 21st 1966, Pantglas School in the small Welsh mining village of Aberfan

    Inside the school, more than 200 children and nine teachers were waiting for their first lesson of the day to begin when the air was filled with the sound of a distant rumble.

    A massive coal tip - a mountain of waste generated by the town's mines that employed 8000 people had collapsed and a landslide of mud and debris flooded into the classroom, burying the school and engufing everyone inside

    116 children and 28 adults were killed

    It was one of the worst industrial disasters Britain has ever seen. An accident that could and should have been prevented and a tragic account of a mistake that cost a village an entire generation of its children.

     

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