The defence of Outpost Snipe managed to spoil Destroying the biggest Axis counter-attack against the positions captured Conquering by the Eighth Army , during Operation Lightfoot but the Battalion had 72 casualties .

The Aberfan disaster Catastrophe was the catastrophic collapse Catastrophe of a colliery spoil tip at around 9:15 am on 21 October 1966 .

There were seven spoil tips on the slopes above Aberfan ; Tip 7—the one that slipped Motion_directional onto the village—was begun Process_start in 1958 and , at the time of the disaster Catastrophe , was high .

After three weeks of heavy rain the tip was saturated Filling and approximately of spoil slipped Motion_directional down the side of the hill and onto the Pantglas area of the village .