Disaster In Aberfan Wales. The money was used to pay for repairs in the village and. It was one of the united kingdom s worst tragedies and it was a man made disaster.
In the south wales coal mining village of aberfan students at the pantglas junior school had just began their day s lessons after singing the hymn all things bright and beautiful as they did on every other school day before it. It was a friday morning on october 21 1966 shortly after 9 00 a m. The aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in wales on 21 october 1966.
Aberfan is a former coal mining village in the south wales taff valley near merthyr tydfil.
The aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in wales on 21 october 1966. Coal tip slide caused by heavy rainfall and a hillside spring that had also been covered by the coal waste from the colliery. In 1966 300 000 cubic yards of coal sludge buried a welsh primary school and 19 houses in aberfan wales. It is exactly 50 years since tragedy swooped down on aberfan killing 116 children and 28 adults.
