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People walk in the cemetery as the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster approaches on 13 October, 2016
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In October 1966, a ten-year-old Welsh girl named Eryl Mai Jones told her mother of a disturbing dream, in which “something black” had covered her school, said Steven Poole in The Daily Telegraph. The next day, she was one of 144 people killed in the Aberfan disaster – caused when a coal-slurry tip on top of a hill collapsed and buried the mining village below.

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