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Aberfan Disaster - Part 4: Rescue and Reckoning
In the hours after the slide, Aberfan became a village of digging, panic, and disbelief. The disaster was no longer an abstract risk or a problem of paperwork—it was a race against suffocation and loss, fought by neighbors and strangers alike. The first response was chaos turned to action. Villagers, miners, and police formed chains to move spoil by hand, desperate to reach anyone alive in Pantglas Junior School and the homes nearby.
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