The evening before the disaster, the pile of debris had actually dropped by 10 feet, the height of a basketball hoop. The rails which brought material to the pile, and fallen into a sinkhole This was discovered at 7:30 am and attention to the activity was brought to the supervisor on si...
Had the disaster happened just 24 hours later, all the children would have been safe at home on Half-Term Holiday. Had the wave of slurry hit just five minutes before at 9.10 am, most of the children would have been protected by the shelter of their school assembly hall. But the black...
So too after the recent Beslan school disaster. A team of 48 psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and psychologists was assembled before the siege …doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7485.254-aDerek A SummerfieldBritish Medical AssociationBmjSummerfield D A. Disaster mental health:Lessons from Aberfan[J].British ...
"It's ordinary people that are going to be affected if there is a disaster, or even a minor slip, which has just happened in Cwmtillery. They still cause masses of disruption for people," he told Sky News. "I'm no expert on the financial side of things, but clearly [the mo...
As the event that dominates the third episode of Season 3 of The Crown, the Aberfan Disaster remains one of the most devastating losses of human ...
Jeff Edwards, 63, was eight years old when he walked into the school moments before a coal tip landslide hit the classroom. "The building started to shake, the next thing I remember was waking up with all this material above me and there was a dead...
One-year-old Daniel reached out and snatchedKate’shandbag as the royal stopped to talk to mother-of-two Lucy Williams. The “priceless” moment came at the end of a trip to the Aberfan Memorial Garden on Friday – the site of a 1966 disaster in which 144 people were killed. ...
A CITY grandmother who grew up near disaster-hit Aberfan has expressed her anger at plans to build on the memorial to the town's dead.Mair Turrell, of St Lawrences Road, Foleshill, Coventry, was brought up in a mining family in Pontlottyn, just a few miles from Aberfan.She moved to ...