Myanmar Jade Mine Landslide Kills Over 126 Miners, Many Go Missing
Bhubaneswar, July 2 -- Yangon: At least 126 bodies were found on Thursday, while several others were reported missing after a landslide hit a jade mining site in Myanmar's Kachin state, officials said.
"A more than 304 metre-high cliff collapsed, burying those collecting stones," Xinhua news agency quoted a rescue worker at the scene as saying.
Caused by the monsoon rains, the landslide occurred at the site in Sate Mu village tract of Hpakant township at 8 a.m., according to the Fire Services Department.
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More than 126 miners are reported to be killed in a Jade mine collapse in Hpakant township in Kachin State of northern #Myanmar. Dozens more are missing and unaccounted for till the reports last came in.
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