The Abravan catastrophe, one of the worst coal-mining incidents in the United Kingdom, occurred on the morning of October 21, 1966, when a landslide fall of coal waste in the small community of Wilzi killed 116 children and 28 adults, leaving only five survivors.
The avalanche caused 140,000 cubic yards of coal waste to be sent in a 40-foot high-altitude wave that crashed at the base of the mountain, destroying homes and a portion of the nearby secondary school.
During the industrial revolution, coal mining in Wales was very popular. The Abravan mine began operations in 1869, and by 1916 it had exhausted the allotted waste area at the base of the mountain valley.
Years before to the incident, the City Council of the City of the National Coal Council contacted them to express their worries following a rare accident in a coal mine, but at that time, nothing was done to address the issue.
The catastrophe received a large -scale national attention, Queen Elizabeth II did not visit the site until eight days after the accident; She later admitted that the insecurity of solving the problem is one of the biggest reasons for its remorse.
In order to add judgements when new while mining from other problems, the Mines and Quarries Law was released in 1969.
Abvan disaster causes 144 people in Wales in 1966 .. What took place?
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