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Is it just me or do the survivor counts make no sense in this article? > 240 pupils of the Victorian red brick Pantglas Junior School > The 10th and last chil

Is it just me or do the survivor counts make no sense in this article? > 240 pupils of the Victorian red brick Pantglas Junior School > The 10th and last child to be brought out alive, he was treated for head and stomach injuries. > A further 28 children were injured, many seriously. > There are thought to be about 20 or so of the surviving children left in Aberfan. > They had registered the deaths of 116 children So… only 10 were pulled out alive, but 20+ survived? 28 were injured, but not dead, but not pulled out alive? 124 weren't registered as dead?

Symbiote 10y ago
The pictures show the spoil hit the side of the school, but didn't completely cover it. Wikipedia says "struck the northern side of Pantglas Junior School". Perhaps not all the classrooms were affected, and some groups of children (and teachers) simply walked out of the damaged building, without needing to be rescued. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster -- there are a lot of references, I expect the official report is amongst them somewhere.
- jacalata 10y ago
  The article mentions in passing that one class of five year olds had been taken for a walk and weren't hurt.
GavinMcG 10y ago
There were 240 pupils, 116 of whom were killed. 28 were injured, 10 of whom had been trapped and needed to be brought out. So 96 of the pupils were not physically affected. Only 20 of the (then-) children still live in Aberfan.
- Pxtl 10y ago
  Thank you, I found the numbers difficult to follow, too.
- Someone 10y ago
  Small correction: "A further 28 children were injured". I read that as 38 were injured, 10 of whom were trapped, leaving 86 who weren't physically injured.