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In just minutes, 140,000 cubic yards of coal waste buried a Welsh village and its school. 116 children and 28 adults were lost. This is the story of Aberfan.
It's a single storey, windowless building you'd likely walk by and hardly notice, but once plans were made there for the ...
Aerial images of the disaster site showed a scene akin to that of a earthquake, with a huge hole where the roof of the club had been. It is not clear how many people were in Jet Set when the roof ...
TORONTO, April 9, 2025 /CNW/ - Intact Financial Corporation (TSX: IFC) estimates that catastrophe losses 1 for the first quarter impacting continuing operations were approximately $244 million on ...
"As we head further into 2025 and beyond, we're seeing a response at the national level that disaster declarations might not be as forthcoming," says Nakita Devlin, co-founder and CEO of catastrophe ...
Archbishop Francisco Ozoria Acosta of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, expressed his profound sorrow and solidarity in response to the tragedy that occurred early Tuesday morning, April 8, at ...
While most markets have seen deep selloffs since Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement, investors in catastrophe bonds have sailed through with hardly a ripple. Fermat Capital ...
Nearly 60 years since the Aberfan disaster, which killed 144 people when coal waste slid down the side of a mountain into a school, £130m has been invested in securing waste left behind by coal ...
It is "difficult" to give a "cast iron guarantee" that lives won't be lost because of a coal tip disaster, the deputy first minister of Wales has told Sky News. Nearly 60 years since the Aberfan ...