One dead and at least 70 missing after landslide at Myanmar jade mine
Jade pickers scavenge for scrap jade on a hillside in the Hpakant area of Kachin state, northern Myanmar.At least one person has died and dozens of people are missing after a landslide in Myanmar.The landslide happened at around 4am Myanmar time on Wednesday in the moutainous and remote area of Hpakant, in Kachin State, northern Myanmar, according to a civil society group and media reports.
More than 70 miners who were digging for jade were swept into a lake after earth and waste from several mines around Lonekhin village slid about 200 feet down a cliff, he added.Bodies being recovered after separate landslide in July 2020 in Hpakant, Kachin State, Myanmar. More 100 people were killed.Hpakant is the centre of Myanmar's lucrative jade industry. Myanmar produces 90% of the world's jade and most of the gems are exported to China.
But deadly landslides and other accidents are common in Hpakant, where activists say the mines are poorly regulated by firms making billions of dollars a year.In July 3 last year, at least 162 people, many of who were migrants, died in after mining waste collapsed into a lake in Hpakant. In November 2015, 113 were killed after a 200 foot-high mountain of earth and waste discarded by several mines collapsed in the middle of the night on 70 huts where miners were sleeping.Many miners are freelance scavengers who work and live in abandoned mining pits at the base of the mounds of earth, which become unstable during the rainy season.
Many are also migrants, so it is hard to determine exactly how many people are missing after such accidents.before her government was ousted by the militaryThe military has said it shut down jade mining in Hpakant, but dozens of companies are understood to have been operating illegally.
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