Miners Again At Work In Aber fan
(N .Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) ABERFAN (Wales), November 1. Eight hundred miners resumed work at Aberfan’s Merthyr Vale colliery yesterday for the first time since its waste tip collapsed and buried the village school 10 days ago.
In the first two days after a black avalanche of coal waste killed 150 people—mostly schoolchildren —many of the miners worked nonstop at rescue tasks. Some dug out their own children’s bodies. Over the last week, most have been employed in diverting the huge mass of rainloosened coal slack and shale from houses it was threatening. and in general clearance work. *• More than 10,000 schoolchildren in the nearby town of Merthyr Tydfil observed two minutes’ silence today in memory of the children killed at Aberfan. Meanwhile, the disaster fund for bereaved families topped £175,000. Each family is being given £l5O from the fund for immediate expenses. The village’s 360 surviving schoolchildren are staying at home until alternative arrangements for their education are made. Several parents have al-
ready objected strongly to plans to transfer their children to a nearby school near a grassed-over coal tip.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31206, 2 November 1966, Page 17
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