YANGON: Rescuers continued to comb through rubble on Thursday for victims of a landslide at a jade mine in war-torn northern Myanmar that killed at least two people, according to police.

An unknown number of miners are missing after heavy rain triggered a landslide in Hpakant town in Kachin state on Tuesday evening, a local police officer told Agence France-Presse.

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