The death toll from a landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant township, Myanmar’s Kachin state has climbed to 113 as more bodies were recovered on July 2, according to a statement by the country’s Information Ministry.
A landslide occurring due to the collapse of pit wall of a disused jade mining site on July 14 killed at least 15 people and injured at least 45 others in Hpakant region, Kachin state, northern Myanmar.
At least 11 people were killed and many others are reported missing after a landslide hit a jade mining region on May 24 in Hpakant town in northern Kachin, Myanmar.
At least 90 people were killed in a huge landslide in a remote jade mining area in Myanmar’s northern state of Kachin , local officials said on November 22.