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Aberfan Disaster - Part 3: The Black Wave
At nine fifteen in the morning, the valley’s silence was shattered. The hillside above Aberfan gave way, and what began as a slow shift became a roaring, unstoppable wave. For those on the ground, there was no time to run—only the sound of disaster rolling down. The date was October twenty-first, nineteen sixty-six.
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