#11: Aberfan, Wales
Aberfan is remembered for the morning in 1966 when a coal spoil tip collapsed and slid into Pantglas Junior School and nearby homes. The disaster killed 116 children and 28 adults. It was not an unforeseeable act of nature. It was tied to industrial negligence, ignored warnings, and a landscape burdened by mining waste. Aberfan’s tragedy is unbearable because it happened during an ordinary school day, in a village that trusted the hill above it.
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