More bodies found at Myanmar jade mine disaster
Another 6 bodies have been pulled from a landslide at a jade mine in Myanmar, bringing the disaster's death toll to 166. – EPA pic, July 3, 2020.
RESCUERS today pulled several bodies from the scene of a landslide which killed over 160 jade miners in northern Myanmar, many of them migrant workers seeking their fortune in treacherous open-cast mines near the China border. The disaster – the worst in memory to strike Myanmar’s notoriously dangerous jade mines – occurred yesterday when a hillside collapsed in heavy monsoon rains.
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