Witness History: Archive 2011 - Aberfan Disaster
**** 4 Extra marks the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan Disaster
October 21st, 1966, the day a terrible tragedy struck a Welsh mining village.
Tons of coal-waste collapsed onto houses and Aberfan's primary school.
144 people were killed in total - most of them children.
Producer: Rob Walker
First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 2011.
Published on Friday, 21st October 2011.
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