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More than 50 feared killed in landslide at Myanmar jade mine: police
YANGON, April 23, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Dozens are feared dead after a landslide
in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state engulfed jade miners while they were
sleeping, local police said Tuesday, the latest accident in a notoriously
dangerous industry.
“Fifty-four people are missing in the mud,” a duty officer from the
Hpakant police station in Kachin told AFP, adding that “there’s no way they
(the missing) could have survived.”
BSS/AFP/SSS/1645 hrs