About 200 rescuers are mobilized to participate in the search for the missing.
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At least 70 people are missing and one died after a landslide in a jade mine in northern Burma, a member of the rescue services told AFP. Landslide “occurred around 4 a.m. (local time)”, added the rescuer. “We sent 25 wounded to hospital while we found one dead.” About 200 rescuers participate in the search, some on board boats to try to recover bodies from a lake.
In Burma, dozens of miners die each year working in hazardous conditions in jade quarries, an opaque and poorly regulated industry. Landslides are frequent in this poor and difficult to access region, which looks like a lunar landscape as it has been altered by large mining groups, with no regard for the environment. In 2020, heavy monsoon rains caused the worst disaster of its kind, with 300 miners buried in the Hpakant massif, near the Chinese border.