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23 bodies found after landslide in Myanmar’s northernmost mining region
YANGON, July 30, 2018 (BSS/Xinhua) – A total of 23 bodies have been
recovered as of Sunday after days of search for the 27 missing people when a
landslide hit Myanmar’s Kachin state last week, the local 7-Day News reported
Monday.
Two of the bodies have been unidentified.
Search continued for the remaining four still missing in the Hpakant mining
region.
A massive landslide occurred due to the collapse of a 91.4-meter-high pit
wall of an unused jade mining site owned by Ayeyar Yadanar Company in Seik Mu
village tract in the township on Tuesday morning.
A similar landslide took place in San-Khar village and Lone-Khin village in
the region on July 14, killing at least 17 jade scavengers with 43 others
injured.
BSS/Xinhua/MSY/0936 hrs