Dozens of people are feared missing after a landslide early on Wednesday at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, according to a civil society group and media reports.
The landslide in the Hpakant area of Kachin State happened at around 4 a.m. local time, and there were fears that about 80 people had been swept into a lake by mining waste, an official at the Kachin Network Development Foundation said.
“Authorities arrived at the site around 7 a.m. and are conducting the search,” Dashi Naw Lawn, an official at the civil society group said by telephone, adding that no dead bodies had