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Aberfan Disaster
It is 45 years since tragedy struck a Welsh mining village.
Tons of coal-waste collapsed onto houses and Aberfan's primary school.
One hundred and forty-four people were killed in total - most of them children.
(Photo: Jim Gray/Getty Images)
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