According to local media reports in Myanmar, rescuers have stopped searching for miners believed to be victims of another deadly landslide in Hpakant township in Kachin State, as the toll in the tragedy ...
... are believed to have been buried.
The landslide occurred on a mountain of waste from jade mines in Weikha village in the Hpakant region, which is the centre of the money-spinning industry in Kachin. ...
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The landslide occurred in Kachin state’s mining community of Hpakant. Kachin is home to some of the world’s highest-quality jade and the industry generated an estimated $31 billion last year, wit ...
More than 100 people have died in a landslide at a remote jade mining area in northern Myanmar early on Saturday which buried about 70 huts housing artisanal miners and their families.
The Hpakant ...