Between 70 and 100 people are missing after a landslide hit a jade mine in Myanmar, and four people are said to have been found dead.
It reports the Myanmar news website Mizzima.
The landslide occurred in the Hpakant area in the state of Kachin, in the north of the country.
– Around 70 to 100 people are missing after a landslide that took place around 04 o’clock, says Ko Nyi from the rescue crews to the news agency AFP.
– We have sent 25 injured people to hospital, while we have found one dead, he continues.
The miners were working to transport soil and rocks when landslides led many of them to a nearby lake, according to Ko Nyi.
According to him, around 200 people participate in the search, and some use boats to search for the dead in the lake.
Another official says that it is feared that around 80 people were pushed into a sea of mining waste.
There must be poor internet coverage in the area.
Myanmar is the world’s largest extractor of the green jade stone, which is used for jewelery, among other things.
Several terrible accident
The many jade mines in the country have been affected by a number of accidents in recent years. The security measures are miserable, and working immigrants work for lice wages.
By 2020 At least 172 people lost their lives in a landslide went in the same area. Another 55 people were injured. This was the deadliest mining accident to hit the mining industry in the country.
Last year, large amounts of precipitation triggered a large landslide in the same area. Nearly 300 miners were buried under the masses.
Here is the race accident:
