At least 13 jade mine workers and security guards in northern Myanmar were killed in a landslide Sunday, authorities said, as rescuers frantically searched for more victims, Alarabiyya reports.
Dozens die each year in landslides caused by jade mining, a dangerous and poorly regulated industry in Kachin state between the country’s borders with China and India.
Myanmar’s fire services department said in a Facebook post the accident happened in the early morning in Hpakant township.
“We have sent two injured men and the dead bodies of 13 men” to a local hospital, the department said.
A police officer on the scene told AFP that the upper part of a mine collapsed and fell around 200 meters onto those sleeping below.
