epa05081103 A general view shows Myanmar rescue workers with backhoes search for miners after a landslide at Hpa Kant jade mining area, Kachin State, northern Myanmar, 26 December 2015. At least 50 people are feared dead after another landslide at gold and jade mines in northern Myanmar, a local official said. The latest spill of waste rock accumulated during the mining process occurred near jade mines in Kachin state, where at least 115 people were killed in a landslide in late November 2015. EPA/ZAW MOE HTET
YANGON: Rescuers in northern Myanmar Sunday said they were confident only a handful of people are missing in a jade mine landslide, refuting local reports that as many as 50 might have been buried.
A wall of rocks, mud and debris careered down a hillside on Friday afternoon in Hpakant, Kachin State, the war-torn area that is the epicentre of Myanmar’s secretive billion dollar jade industry.
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