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NAYPYITAW, July 4 — Dozens more jade miners killed in a landslide in northern Myanmar will be buried today, a local official said, after 77 others were interred in a mass grave yesterday following one of the worst mining accidents in the country’s history. More than 170 people, many of them...

Saturday, 04 Jul 2020 04:37 PM MYT

More than 170 people, many of them migrants seeking their fortune in the jade-rich Hpakant area of Kachin state, died on Thursday after mining waste collapsed into a lake, triggering a surge of mud and water. He said the 77 buried yesterday had been identified and 39 would be interred today. Volunteers carried plywood coffins and placed them into a mass grave carved out by diggers close to the mine site.

About 100 people were killed in a 2015 collapse that led to calls to regulate the industry. Another 50 died in 2019. But Thursday’s landslide was the worst in memory.

 

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