Welsh Tragedy: Hundreds Killed In Slag Avalanche
Welsh Tragedy: Hundreds Killed In Slag Avalanche
NO AUDIO Some 200 persons, mostly children, are killed in an avalanche of coal slag which buries part of the village of Aberfan, in South Wales. The local schoolhouse, a farm and 16 miners cottages were engulfed in the slide. MS Miners digging for their own children. Miners removing rocks and debris. High Angle Shot as two policemen removing a recovered body of a child. MCUS The miners and other people from the village pass empty buckets to dig with and remove slag. CUS of shovels digging into the slag. Prince Philip walking threw and evaluating the heart wrenching disaster. Prince Philip looks on at a building that was dug out of the slag, perhaps is was a school building. High Angle Shot as another body is removed in a body bag. People crowd around working to recover more victims.