Multi-billion ringgit jade industry is plagued by deadly accidents, reports say.
A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar killed at least 100 people, with more feared dead, authorities said on Thursday, after a pile of mine waste collapsed into a lake, triggering a wave of mud and water that buried scores of workers.
The miners were collecting stones in the jade-rich Hpakant area of Kachin state when the "muddy wave" crashed onto them, following heavy rain, said the fire service department in a Facebook post. “Now we recovered more than 100 bodies,” Tar Lin Maung, a local official with the information ministry, told
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