This handout from the Myanmar Fire Services Department taken and released on July 2, 2020 shows rescuers attempting to locate survivors after a landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant, Kachin state. - AFP
YANGON (Xinhua): The death toll from monsoon landslides in Myanmar's Kachin state has risen to 113 as more bodies were recovered on Thursday (July 2), said a release from the Information Ministry.
"An over 304-metre high cliff collapsed, burying local jade scavengers," a rescue worker at the scene was quoted in the ministry's earlier release as saying.
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