Frightened Families Seek To Leave Aberfan Village

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Frightened families are pre-|of. material ‘would be taken paring to leave this small | from the top. Welsh mining village, unable to| The action followed a‘ state- live any longer under the threet | ment last week at the tribunal of the killer coal slag heap that | in nearby Merthyr, which is in- towers above. vyestigating the disaster”. The The man-made mountain of | Tribunal opened last Tuesday coal -waste slipped Oct. 21. en-| and is expected to go on for guifing a school and killed 144/| six weeks. persons, 116 of them children. A| PLEAS FOR PARENTS Lawyer Ackner, representing the bereaved par- ents of Aberfan, pleaded that terrified villagers should be Phursday,— following torrential ’ rains, bringing fears of a fresh disaster

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The people.of Aberfan have borne their tragedy with for- titude, but for some the strain has become too much.

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