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Nearly 70 missing in landslide in Myanmar's jade mining area

Xinhua, April 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

Some 70 people went missing in a landslide in a jade mining area in Phakant, Myanmar's northern Kachin ethnic state, local media reported on Thursday.

The bank of 15.25-meter-high jade mining burrow of Myayamone Co. ,Ltd collapsed on Wednesday near Lonekhin village in Phakant.

Along with the victims, 30 heavy digging machines were also buried on the spot.

The victims, who were living in makeshift huts near the jade mining area, are mostly jade miners or peddlers.

Hundreds of companies are undertaking jade mining work at the site.

Similar landslide occurred in the same township at the end of March 2015, killing nine people. Endi