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Aberfan

/ ˌæbəˈvæn /

noun

  1. a former coal-mining village in S Wales, in Merthyr Tydfil county borough: scene of a disaster in 1966 when a slag heap collapsed onto part of the village killing 144 people (including 116 children)


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