A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar yesterday killed at least one person and left dozens missing, a member of the rescue team told reporters.
Scores die each year working in the country’s lucrative, but poorly regulated jade trade, which uses low-paid migrant workers to scrape out a gem highly coveted in neighboring China.
The disaster struck at the Hpakant mine close to the Chinese border in Kachin State, where billions of US dollars of jade is believed to be scoured each year from bare hillsides.
“About 70 to 100 people are missing” following the landslide that struck around 4am, rescue