Landslide in mine, at least seventy missing. 200 rescuers engaged in research
Tragedy in a jade quarry
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Another mine landslide in Burma, where dozens of miners die every year working in dangerous conditions in the jade quarries.
At least 70 people are missing and one has been confirmed dead in the north of the country: "Between 70 and 100 people are missing in a landslide that occurred at 4" at the Hpakant site, in the state of Kachin, rescuers say. "We sent 25 wounded to the hospital and found one dead."
About 200 rescuers are participating in the searches, some aboard boats to try to recover bodies from a lake.
In Burma, landslides are frequent in this region and heavy monsoon rains caused the worst disaster of its kind in 2020, with 300 miners buried after a landslide in the Hpakant massif, the heart of this industry, near the Chinese border.
According to the surveillance body Global Witness in a report published in 2021, the February coup erased any possibility of regulating the sector with the reform initiated under Aung San Suu Kyi.
(Unioneonline / D)