Families' 15-year wait for mine deaths inquest

Families of the 4 miners who died successful a southbound Wales colliery catastrophe 13 years agone volition person to hold until 2026 for answers into what happened.

Charles Breslin, 62, David Powell, 50, Phillip Hill, 44, and Garry Jenkins, 39, died erstwhile h2o flooded the Gleision drift excavation adjacent Cilybebyll, Neath Port Talbot, successful September 2011.

The catastrophe happened aft regular blasting erstwhile thousands of gallons of h2o flooded a passageway wherever 7 miners were working.

After a protracted battle, families were told successful 2022 that a afloat inquest into their deaths would beryllium held, but a pre-inquest proceeding successful Swansea’s Guildhall was told it would not beryllium until "the aboriginal portion of 2026".