MINING DISASTER
The bodies of miners killed by a landslide are placed on the ground in a jade mining area in Hpakhant, in Myanmar’s Kachin state on November 22. At least 90 people have died in a huge landslide in a remote jade mining area of northern Myanmar, officials said on November 22, as search teams continued to find bodies in one of the deadliest disasters to strike the country’s shadowy jade industry. AFP PHOTO
The bodies of miners killed by a landslide are placed on the ground in a jade mining area in Hpakhant, in Myanmar’s Kachin state on November 22. At least 90 people have died in a huge landslide in a remote jade mining area of northern Myanmar, officials said on November 22, as search teams continued to find bodies in one of the deadliest disasters to strike the country’s shadowy jade industry. AFP PHOTO
YANGON: At least 90 people have died in a huge landslide in a remote jade mining area of northern Myanmar, officials said Sunday, as search teams continued to find bodies in one of the deadliest disasters to strike the country’s shadowy jade industry.