From the pages of the South China Morning Post this week in 1966
First reports from Aberfan in South Wales spoke of 150 feared dead in one of Britain's worst peacetime disasters after an avalanche of waste coal and slag swept down a hillside on the Welsh mining village.
More than 100 children were entombed in their school and other people killed in their homes.
Two million tonnes of rain-soaked colliery waste from a slag-heap 500 feet up the valley slopes above the village suddenly broke loose, plunging down to bury a school and 15 nearby houses.
Dust-grimed miners - some of whom had children at the school - downed tools at a nearby colliery and rushed to the scene, clawing frantically with shovels or bare hands at the mass of debris.
Three hours after the huge rubbish tip had collapsed, the avalanche was still moving slowly through the village of Aberfan where the school was situated. A state of emergency was declared in the little mining village as pitiful scenes were repeated as mothers recognised their children - brought out dead.
