Remembering Aberfan – ‘All I saw was a mound of black’

Contains distressing content.

Pupils at a south Wales primary school had just started their final day before the half term break – but within minutes, more than a hundred of them would be dead.

It’s sixty years since the Aberfan disaster – caused by an avalanche of coal waste which swept through the small village.

Tomorrow King Charles will join survivors and relatives as part of the commemorations – but even now, six decades on, new accounts of that day are still emerging.

Viv Jones was 15 at the time and this is the first anniversary when he has felt ready to talk about it publicly. In his first interview, he’s been talking to our Wales correspondent Andy Davies.

There are details some viewers may find distressing.