Welsh Village Mourns Mass Memorial for Slide Victims
Welsh Village Mourns Mass Memorial for Slide Victims
NO AUDIO Survivors of the Aberfan disaster (a slag landslide that covered a school and two dozen homes) that killed 144 people, 116 of the dead were children, are laid to rest on a hillside cemetery. The mass funeral draws thousands of mourners who have joined bereaved relatives, survivors, rescue workers, coal miners and people of the village in the small Welsh town. A giant cross of flowers overlooks the single, mass trench grave. LS Aerial shot of a village as the camera pans and you see a giant cross in memorial. A giant cross made from white flowers is laid on a hillside about 4 feet wide across. A man lays a flower down in honor of a slag victim. Four gentlemen and a boy somewhere in the age range of 12 to 14 years old walking up the incline of the village street carrying flowers. While others following behind carry floral arrangements. Four ministers walking to the grave site. High Angle shot up at the mountains that caused the massive deaths. Crowds gather at Aberfan cemetery. There s only standing room only as people stand on the hilltop in grief, some holding prayer books. Down the center of the floral cross lay many coffins in a mass grave with people lined on either side of the trench. People stand singing or reading off prayers from the books they hold. MS coffins being laid to rest on the side of the hill. CU of floral arrangements that have been brought to the gravesite. People gathered looking at the arrangements or the coffins laid out before them. Aerial of the Cemetery and flower cross that s been laid.