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\nAs many as 100 people are feared missing after a landslide at a jade mine in Myanmar.
\nRescue teams are desperately searching for people in a nearby lake, with most victims believed to be illegal miners. One person is confirmed dead.
\nThe landslide occurred in the Hpakant area of northern Kachin state at 04:00 on Wednesday (21:30 GMT Tuesday).
\nMyanmar, also known as Burma, is the world\u2019s biggest source of jade, but its mines have seen numerous accidents.
\nThe landslide is believed to have been caused by an overflow of rubble discarded from lorries to the open-pit mines.
\nThe rubble creates large slopes that can be dangerous in an area denuded of trees, forcing those looking for fragments of the semi-precious stone to labour in hazardous conditions.
\nRescue teams consisting of about 200 people from Hpakant and the nearby town of Lone Khin joined search and recovery efforts at the site. Boats were used to search for the missing in a nearby lake.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve sent 25 injured people to hospital while we\u2019ve found one dead,\u201d a member of the rescue team, Ko Nyi, said, confirming up to 100 people may be missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Naypyitaw As many as 100 people are feared missing after a landslide at a jade mine in Myanmar. Rescue teams are desperately searching for people in a nearby lake, with most victims believed to be illegal miners. One person is confirmed dead. The landslide occurred in the Hpakant area of northern Kachin state at 04:00 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-234439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n