<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcinelle_mining_disaster" id="mw2Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Marcinelle mining disaster">Marcinelle mining disaster</a> in Belgium. 262 coal miners, including a substantial number of Italian migrant workers, were killed in one of the largest mining accidents in Belgian history.<sup about="#mwt53" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_8#cite_note-8" id="mw2g" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw2w">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt50" class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source" id="mwB34"><a class="external text" href="https://www.rtbf.be/article/il-y-a-65-ans-262-mineurs-y-perdaient-la-vie-le-bois-du-cazier-a-marcinelle-se-souvient-de-la-catastrophe-du-8-aout-1956-10820654" id="mwB38" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Il y a 65 ans, 262 mineurs y perdaient la vie: le Bois du Cazier à Marcinelle se souvient de la catastrophe du 8 août 1956"</a>. <i id="mwB4A">RTBF</i> (in French). Belga. 8 August 2021<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB4E">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB4I">8 August</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt50" class="Z3988" id="mwB4M" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=RTBF&amp;rft.atitle=Il+y+a+65+ans%2C+262+mineurs+y+perdaient+la+vie%3A+le+Bois+du+Cazier+%C3%A0+Marcinelle+se+souvient+de+la+catastrophe+du+8+ao%C3%BBt+1956&amp;rft.date=2021-08-08&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rtbf.be%2Farticle%2Fil-y-a-65-ans-262-mineurs-y-perdaient-la-vie-le-bois-du-cazier-a-marcinelle-se-souvient-de-la-catastrophe-du-8-aout-1956-10820654&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+8"></span><link about="#mwt50" href="./Category:CS1_French-language_sources_(fr)" id="mwB4Q" rel="mw:PageProp/Category"/></span>