On the morning of October 21, 1966, a coal waste tip collapsed and crushed Pantglas Junior School. 116 children and 28 adults were killed in minutes—buried where they sat.

The first ever full academic study of the Aberfan Disaster - which claimed the lives of 144 children and adults - has been published. The publication of Aberfan - Government and Disasters uses ...

“The Crown,” Netflix’s on-going drama about Queen Elizabeth, tells the story of the 1966 Aberfan coal mine tragedy. Her Majesty visited this Welsh village of 5,000 eight days after a ...

The heritage listing of the site of Australia's worst coal mining disaster has come as a relief to those who have advocated for it for decades. The NSW government confirmed the listing this month ...

For a time, the whistles were quiet. That incident — now known as the Smith Mine Disaster — killed off nearly 20 percent of Bearcreek's residents. Of the men killed, 92 percent were immigrants ...

Official commemorations of the 40th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster have begun, to remember the 144 people who died in the south Wales town. A total of 116 children lost their lives when a coal ...

A collapse at a coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province has killed at least 12 people, a mining source and a civil society source said on Friday.

People living in the shadow a quarry near Pontypridd have described their life as a "slow Aberfan disaster", a Senedd committee has heard. Residents near Craig-yr-Hesg quarry in Glyncoch have been ...

People living in the shadow a quarry near Pontypridd have described their life as a "slow Aberfan disaster", a Senedd committee has heard. Residents near Craig-yr-Hesg quarry in Glyncoch have been ...

Indonesian media reported more than a dozen people died in a May 2025 landslide at a limestone mine in West Java province's Cirebon city, but footage circulating online that purportedly shows the ...

But an hour and 37 minutes after their shift began, all but three of the miners were dead or dying in the worst coal mine disaster in Montana history. They were survived by 58 widows and 125 children.