Sixty years after a coal tip collapsed onto Pantglas Junior School in Aberfan, Wales, killing 144 people, including 116 children, survivors have shared their harrowing firsthand accounts of the disaster. The 21 October 1966 tragedy, which struck on the last day before half-term, remains seared into the nation's collective memory and reshaped attitudes toward industrial safety.
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Pantglas Junior School
Primary school in Aberfan destroyed in the 1966 disaster