A landslide at a Myanmar jade mine killed no much less than two individuals. Dozens of miners are nonetheless missing, feared useless as rescuers say they don’t expect to uncover any survivors who buried under rubble and particles the mine’s lake in Northern Hpakant, which borders China.
About 200 rescuers, including firefighters and native volunteers, joined the hunt for lacking miners, some using boats in a close-by lake, in accordance with photographs posted on social media by a local journalist who claimed to be on the scene.
A member of the rescue squad advised AFP that about a hundred folks might be missing and 25 individuals have been taken to hospital. Feast , the Kachin News Group, has reported that no much less than 80 miners are missing.
90% of the world’s jade comes from Myanmar, and most of it comes from Hpakant and dozens have been killed every year whereas working in jade mines, which employ low-wage migrant staff to scrape out a stone prized in China..