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Aberfan Disaster

It is 45 years since tragedy struck a Welsh mining village.

Tons of coal-waste collapsed onto houses and Aberfan's primary school.

One hundred and forty-four people were killed in total - most of them children.

(Photo: Jim Gray/Getty Images)

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Sun 23 Oct 2011 01:50GMT

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