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Claire Hayhurst

Gleision mine disaster inquest will have laser-like focus, coroner says

Rescue workers at the Gleision Colliery following the disaster (PA) - (PA Archive)

The inquest into the deaths of four men killed in a South Wales mining disaster 13 years ago will have a “forensic and laser-like focus” in answering key questions about the case, a coroner has said.

Garry Jenkins, 39, Philip Hill, 44, David Powell, 50, and Charles Breslin, 62, were killed when thousands of gallons of water flooded the Gleision drift mine, near Pontardawe, a town in the Swansea valley, on September 15 2011.

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