Aberfan

/ ˌæbəˈvæn /

noun

1. a former coal-mining village in S Wales, in Merthyr Tydfil county borough: scene of a disaster in 1966 when a slag heap collapsed onto part of the village killing 144 people (including 116 children)

Example Sentences

In the case of Aberfan, there was no rule to stop the National Coal Board placing a massive and unstable coal waste tip above residential properties and schools.

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“I can see how because of Aberfan, he is the devil incarnate,” she says.

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Two years earlier, 116 children and 28 adults had been killed when thousands of tonnes of coal waste, destabilised by a mountain spring, collapsed and ploughed into the Welsh mining village of Aberfan.

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But he was also the same man who had been in charge of the National Coal Board during the Aberfan disaster, and who had been fiercely criticised by a tribunal into the disaster.

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Prof Iain McLean, who has extensively researched the Aberfan disaster, has said the appointment was "beyond satire".

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