In just minutes, 140,000 cubic yards of coal waste buried a Welsh village and wiped out an entire generation of children. This is the devastating story of the Aberfan Disaster.

The Aberfan disaster shook the world - 116 children and 28 adults died on 21 October 1966 when a coal tip engulfed a junior school and surrounding homes. How could this happen? Show more The ...

Aberfan disaster: how many people died & why did the Queen delay her visit? AT 9.15am on October 21, 1966, a disaster struck a small Welsh mining community which would devastate the village for a ...

Almost one in three survivors of the Aberfan mining disaster were still suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder 33 years on, a new study has said. On October 21 1966 a coal slagheap ...

The origin of the Bureau is the Aberfan disaster of October 1966, a tragic incident where a colliery tip slid down a mountainside to engulf a village school and a row of houses. A total of 144 ...

The fire at Grenfell Tower in North Kensington killed 72 people in June 2017, just eight months after the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. Denise Morgan was 11 when her sister died after ...

When a coal spoil tip slid down the mountain above Aberfan in October 1966, it engulfed the village school. A total of 116 children and 28 adults died in the disaster, which reverberated around ...

A film poem to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, written by Owen Sheers and performed by a stellar cast of Wales's best-known acting talent, including Michael Sheen ...

The Aberfan disaster was a collapse of a colliery spoil tip which led to the deaths 144 people - including 116 children. A colliery spoil tip is a pile of waste material removed during mining.